• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

The attack is that you open your mouth before engaging your brain, Mr Mayor. That is the attack.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Can you perhaps just finally tell us how that sum of £3 a week on the Council Tax is broken down and which TfL officials provided that detail to you before you made that comment?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

I would applaud all the work that Jennette has been doing and that TfL has been doing on accessibility but I think another motivation to this question lies in the media frenzy about the demise of Routemaster buses. When one delves into that, it is pretty clear that it was primarily driven by a number of right wing commentators and in particular by a Conservative think tank and I am wondering if you can cast any light on why you think this might have happened and what it says about the future of Conservatism that it is trying to hang...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

On all buses? Therefore it is not comparing like with like, is it? Get your envelope right if you are going to use it, for God's sake.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

I will do that. The other issue that has been touched on of course is the lower deck design with the wide open space, which causes people to be thrown around. Now that we are moving to cashless buses, might it be possible to redesign the lower deck such that the wheelchair can access through quite a separate route and therefore make for easy access to seating for able bodied passengers.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

I think the majority of cases are where the ramp is not working, possibly because it has got damaged hitting the kerb so more vigorous maintenance of this may well help.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Would you put it down to driving skills then and not engineering faults within the new bus fleet, because is it not the case that there is something to do with the brakes that we now have within the new fleet?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Can you assure me that this latest guide is not going to be subject to the same furore as the inappropriate guide that came out of TfL targeted at women?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Sally Hamwee (Chair): Just to explain to Roger (Evans, AM) that I thought that Jennette (Arnold, AM) might say, as I would say, that testing by people who need to use buses, including those with hearing impairments, would be a very good thing, to get users to experience and pass on their points. Roger Evans (AM): Indeed, and if you had called me when you said you were going to, I might have said it as well but I do not need to now. I am very grateful to Jennette (Arnold, AM) for raising these issues because they were highlighted...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Perhaps you could let me have the numbers. In fact, I will do you the favour of putting that question down for the next Question Time so that you can tell us whether you have completed the numbers.