• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Can you tell us the turnover and vacancy rates for the Core GLA?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Could you answer my question please rather than give us a lecture on the environment?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

What is the value?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

There are alternatives to the tram. For example, the trolley bus, which has not been taken on board very seriously by TfL, but which when properly costed is a very much more cost-effective solution and could be implemented an awful lot more quickly.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Where I am heading to in these questions, and this possibly does not need an answer, is that there seems to be a poverty of alternative proposals for London's transport from people who want to cut the budgets and investment in London's transport. Perhaps in this debate we can give an opportunity to the other parties to tell us what they would do to grapple with gridlock in the suburbs and other parts of London. Do you think we should also remind ourselves that the Thames Gateway Bridge, should it be built, is part of a package of seven crossings...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Given the huge concerns about this that are now growing locally, and you cannot dismiss those, this should be a matter for a public inquiry. Why can you not put this project back and accept the results of the public inquiry as part of the open democratic process?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

What would be the consequence of the roll-out of the Neighbourhood Policing Teams if say the budget was cut by 3%?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Further to that, do we not also recognise that there are serious costs to London's economy in terms of firms and investors choosing not to locate here because of the levels of congestion and the additional cost that incurs to the operation of their businesses?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Do you think it would be helpful as part of the budget debate if we were to remind ourselves, and perhaps do this as a refresher if you like over the next year, of the opportunity cost of not investing in London's transport?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Therefore it is TfL and therefore those who pay for TfL either through fares or through the Council Tax.