• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 16 April 2005

As someone who is a West London resident and who has family with businesses both in the zone and outside the zone in the West London extension, I too do not recognise the world that Angie Bray is presenting. I would like to say that a lot of residents in the ward I represent, Church Street, would love to be inside the zone, quite honestly, if it were possible to have a northern extension, but that is not possible technically. I would want to limit my question to the West London extension. I understand that the residents of Kensington and...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 April 2005

Have you heard what I have heard in the last day or so that Tony Blair (Prime Minister) is absolutely livid that a Labour Mayor supported by his Labour colleagues, is going to impose a 60% tax hike on Londoners just ahead of a General Election? I wonder whether you have had a few words with him about it. In particular, I wonder whether you have had a few words with the local Labour Party in Hammersmith and Fulham, who are going to find it even more difficult to hang on to the seat there than they perhaps were before...

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

Bearing in mind the controversy there is over the West London Tram, would you consider transferring those monies to have further extensions of tram systems in South London? Could I also ask whether there is a prospect that in the next financial year that project costs at Purley Cross could be considered? I am interested that TfL projects that the increased income from the Congestion Charge will be an increase of 10%. How is that squared with an increase in the price of 60%?

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

What about the prospects next year for Purley Cross?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Are you seriously telling us that you think one-fifth of the national resource is a fair share for London? I find that amazing. If we come on to who should pay, because that is only our share of the funds they make available, is it not the case that two budget rounds ago you put the Council Tax up by £11 million to yield £11 million expressly for Resilience?

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

How many of the 400 additional posts that have occurred within the Core GLA from 2000 to 2005/06 are you prepared to look at?

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

One final question on this because I think it does raise a big question mark. Your Mayoral term ends in 2008 and the westward extension is not due to be up and running until 2007. Surely that makes it rather curious that you are prepared to spend so much money, £125 million in all, on the westward extension when within a year or two all that equipment will be absolutely redundant and obsolete? Why would you not just keep that money to spend on things Londoners actually want you to spend it on and wait for the big stuff to...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

The TOCU has been mentioned a number of times. Could you inform me what percentage of the TfL precept is actually consumed by that?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

What kind of scope is there possibly for a reduction in the TfL precept and its likely impact?

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

Would I be right in thinking that some of that new technology trial is actually the `tag and beacon- trial that we have been told has been taking place in the Old Kent Road with more to follow?