• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

We have just convicted someone at the Old Bailey, I think yesterday, of acts committed in Afghanistan.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

Can I ask one final, somewhat unrelated question, then, which is about tourism? Graham Tope asked a question about the effects on tourism, and we have all had lots of messages and emails from across the Atlantic. A lot of Americans feel a sense of solidarity with us. It might be useful for you to give a message to Americans, in whose eyes you now appear as a solid figure ' a counter to George Galloway (MP, Bethnal Green and Bow), perhaps, I do not know ' to say that one of the greatest tributes that they can give to...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

Finally, in hindsight, how will the lessons we have learned from this terrible atrocity be brought into our plans for the future?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

We will all be pleased to hear that and give our strong support to that. One of the areas that we have often debated in this Chamber, with you and otherwise, is tourism, and we all know how important tourism is to London. Do you have any indications yet of the effects that the London bombings are having and are likely to have on tourism?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

There were, of course, many stories, Mr Mayor, of heroic actions by members of the emergency services, TfL staff, and other members of the public. Sadly, there were also stories about some hotels taking advantage of the situation. Do you or your officers have any information about hotels that cashed in on the grief of the day? Will you make the names of those hotels available, and will you ensure that the Greater London Authority (GLA), for example, does not do business with those hotels?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

First of all, can I echo the comments people have made about the bravery, leadership, and good service given by many Londoners, including many for whom it is not a natural part of their work, which includes several who are colleagues and friends of mine, and indeed, the leadership offered by the Mayor, which is something I would not have said a few years ago. Secondly, though, I am reassured by the comments that yourself and Val Shawcross have given on fire safety, for example. Nevertheless, would you agree with me that once the summer is over, and once we...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

Four of the fire engines are due to be removed this autumn. They have not yet been removed. Is there not any need to review the emergency cover before it goes ahead?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

Can I first of all say, I am sure everybody on my side of the Chamber would associate ourselves with the comments that you have just made. I, too, will pay tribute to the work that was done by all our emergency services and volunteers right across the capital. Can I just ask a couple of practical points for the immediate future, because I suspect we will want to take a cooler look at things in due course. We all hope and pray that we never have to go through this exercise again, but just in terms of immediate lessons...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

Something else which has been raised to me by a number of people since the bombings is that this is a good reason to return conductors and guards to the Tube system, to provide extra sets of eyes. I have to say I feel that would be prohibitively expensive, but do you have plans, for instance, to increase the powers that our ticket inspectors have, so that they could require people to show them what is inside their bags, for example?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

Mr Mayor, I would like to start by passing on to you the regards of a good few Londoners who have asked me to do this. They have said how pleased they are that they had you as a Mayor, and they have said that in relation to the leadership and the words that you spoke. They said that they felt that you were speaking for them, and I just wanted to pass that on to you. I have a two-part question. We recognise that the events of 7 July brought the majority of Londoners together, because it seems to...