• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Can I ask you about something I had expected to hear in your update? Almost two years ago, you announced when we won the Rugby World Cup, that you had conferred the Freedom of Greater London on the squad. What about our cricket team?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

What do you estimate to be the call on the precept, then?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Firstly, on the policing update you gave: a great welcome to the roll out of the Safer Neighbourhoods Teams and the larger counter-terrorism unit. Given the recent events in London, there has been concern that other crimes have not been investigated as quickly as they should have been. Does the increase and the establishment of the specialist crime networks go some way to building and bridging the deficit that has been shown to exist?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

I am really happy about the low-emission zone, so congratulations on that. I just want to talk to you about the changes in the structure of the MPS. You know I have been fighting for years now to keep the traffic section fully staffed ' or rather, to get it fully staffed. It has just about achieved that, and they are now planning to take away 35 officers for anti-terrorist duties. If those officers are taken ' they are really highly skilled; they are very dedicated to what they are doing ' then more people will die on the roads...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Mr Mayor, you have accepted that PCSOs seem to reduce crime. They certainly offer reassurance, and I am not against them at all, because they have a role in certain situations. The roll out, however, as you know, is very expensive. Therefore, would you accept that the roll out of PCSOs is to the detriment, perhaps, of trained and warranted police officers, i.e., we would not get as many new police officers if we had to roll out the whole of the Safer Neighbourhoods Programme?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Can I also ask about the low-emission zone? That is going to the TfL board this month. I am just wondering when, if it is approved at that board meeting, consultation will take place.

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

Mr Mayor, can I refer back to the London Borough of Bromley. Will you accept that perhaps the way to deal with this situation is not to take out an expensive and high-profile court case, which will just drive individuals into entrenched positions, but to adopt a much more persuasive and educated approach? I think that my dear friend, Joan Wykes, who is such a devoted, doughty champion of the people of Bromley, will love nothing more than being attacked continually and publicly by you. Several other good friends and colleagues in Bromley will also enjoy the experience. The more...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

You call it a `subsidy.- I think I might want to call it a grant, but we always get some funding from central Government towards policing in London, and particularly the special payment for national and counter-terrorism and so on. Nevertheless, you have no specific commitment or indication that there will be a commitment towards the funding of the roll out of the Safer Neighbourhood Teams?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

If I told you that the information given to the budget and overtime review group of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) is in conflict with what you have just said today, how would you react?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 14 September 2005

Yes, London will welcome the roll out of PCSOs to the wards in the neighbourhoods which currently do not have them. Indeed, there is a certain tension between wards which have PCSOs and those that do not. Based on historical costs, to roll out the next 368 wards, I believe it is, it will cost £120 million. Is this going to be the first call on your precept?