• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

I think the same standards of proof may well be required, though, you will ultimately find. Does this mean that someone can commit vandalism on the Underground or the surface rail system and still be allowed to use the bus?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

You talk about inappropriate behaviour, as well as criminal acts. I know I get a lot of complaints from pensioners who use the buses about younger people who refuse to give up their seats for them, or who behave in otherwise anti-social ways. Is there a possibility that you could use this photo-ID scheme as a way of instilling better behaviour and courtesy on the bus network, as well as just dealing with criminal acts?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

What about people who we must know, through MPS records, have a criminal record for committing criminal damage, for mugging, or for committing crimes outside the transport network, and who have applied for a pass? Will they be allowed to have one, or will they be prevented from having one?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Can this `gift from Londoners,- as you call it, be exploited, as you say, by people who are from outside London? Are young people outside London eligible, if they apply?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

What if you are a young person from outside the country? Say you are from another European country; you are coming here with your parents as tourists to London. Would you be eligible to apply for this ticket?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

You are going to use neighbourhood police to make sure people form an orderly queue at the bus stop?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

All right. Thank you. We have heard about the difficulties in making the revocation of passes work. What is the view of the MPS and the British Transport Police about this proposal?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

I sometimes wonder whether I live in the same city as some of my fellow Assembly Members. It is clearly being rolled out very smoothly, the free bus travel for under-16s. I was just wondering, as a kind of technicality in terms of procedures between the MPS and TfL, what things you have in place to protect the rights of children and young people under the Child Protection Act and data protection requirements.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Well, Mr Mayor, of course, you will know where the story came from. It came from suggestions from certain Church of England Bishops - the Bishop of Newcastle (The Rt Reverend Martin Wharton), the Bishop of Sheffield (The Rt Reverend Jack Nicholls), and other figures.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

I should hope so, too, but the ALG has recently warned that boroughs could lose millions of pounds in services for vulnerable groups under proposals to change the way central Government grants are distributed to councils. Here is London losing out, potentially, again, and yet London is contributing more. London needs to get this money back, and to say, really, what you just said about the £500 million - you keep on talking about the underinvestment that has been in the transport system, in the waterworks, and so on and so forth. It can be underinvestment, but London is still...