• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

Can I just follow up and say I agree with you, Mayor. The calm and efficient response of the emergency services added to the reassurance of all of Londoners and helped set the tone for the way people behaved. Are you aware at this stage that, in fact, the LFB was able to provide all the equipment, people, and training we needed, without calling in additional services from around London. We had warned other fire brigades around London we might need to call in their support, but in fact, we covered the whole of those incidents, plus all of the...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

Indeed, I share those sentiments, and you were eloquent in your remarks in the immediate aftermath that the terrorists win if the result is that we end up hating each other in community terms. I wanted to ask you a specific question about the language that we seem to use routinely. Indeed, we have talked this morning about `Muslim youth,' and in the media there is talk of `Muslim terrorists,' although it is clearly a total anathema to a true adherent of Islam. If you think about the IRA, we do not talk about Catholic terrorists. If we think about...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

I know that borough leaders are aware of this, and perhaps there can be some liaison with the boroughs, as well, through the Association of London Government (ALG).

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

I understand that point, but for example, it seems there may have been some technical problems with BT getting the telephone lines in until perhaps into the afternoon. Is that something that we can look at?

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

Perhaps we could look again at the 0870 number?

• 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?