• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

You told them as Mayor "My priorities will be to listen to Londoners about their crime, policing and safety concerns and priorities and to make sure that these are reflected in the Metropolitan Police's strategies and the plans developed by the local crime and disorder partnership". How have Bromley's concerns been reflected in the way the resource allocation formula is put together and the way police are allocated in their borough? What have you done about it?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

The problem is, in fact, other Bromley residents, other council tax payers, are subsidising them. Would you bear in mind when you meet them that in the manifesto that you put out to - and some people in Bromley voted for you.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Will you perhaps reflect that when you meet the people in Bromley in September of this year, that over the two years that have elapsed since you last set foot in the borough, they have become particularly concerned that the level of council tax increase the Bromley residents pay is not reflected in any services that they get from the Greater London Authority or its broader family in any commensurate measure. Will you particularly explain to them how it is that one can boast of having the highest ever numbers of police officers in London when the number of officers...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Would you bear in mind, on that basis, since crime in Bromley has increased by 9% despite the best efforts of the limited numbers of officers there, on the logic that you just advanced they should have an increase in police officers, not a reduction? Bear in mind also that Bromley contributes some £29 million by way of precepts and the average household spends some £224 of your precept.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Can you remember the last time you visited Bromley?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

It is nothing to do with the Mayor?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

I know that you have increased the budget both years for road safety but it is still fairly pathetic. Given that this seems to be something that an awful lot of members of the Assembly are now taking up, is it time you actually increased it again but more dramatically?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Okay, here is something you can do, which I have asked TfL for more than once. The major accidents hotspots in London are at major junctions, which generally are TfL's junctions. What happens is that there is no safe way to cross at each arm on the junction simultaneously. I actually cut my political teeth as a mother of young children working with other mothers to get the Archway Road/Shepherd's Hill junction changed to an all red pedestrian phase at every arm of the junction. That took years and years to achieve. Later on, when I was in charge of...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

So are you going to insist on that?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Okay, so you are not supporting 20mph zones around every school and hospital?