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

You wish. Well, we know where you are on consultation and it has never been one of your strongest points. However, let me also ask you about new technology, which you touched on. Could you tell me how much is budgeted and where it is budgeted in your budget for this year for the money on new technology trials?

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

I am sure that we are very happy to record such a proposal as one of the parties who voted against the ringfence proposal ' perhaps the only party - the idea that somehow we should conspire against Londoners and have an agreement that our tanks should be off your lawn and yours should be off ours ' which was a conspiracy against the London taxpayers. Nevertheless, perhaps I could put it to you that this institution which runs such a large vacancy rate could indeed, bearing in mind the vacancy rate is 15%, immediately make savings without an impact...

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

`Not in my Mayoral term, not for at least a decade- were your words.

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

You mentioned to us about the charge that I might be leading on the TfL budget, but one of the problems you have is that you have not properly valued the extra income that you are going to get from the buses and from the Congestion Charge, which will allow and permit this investment in London's transport systems. I am very concerned about two items. One is the advice that TfL are unable to put a value on the free Travelcards that they give to staff, former staff and contractors. The other question is a very good question that John...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

I do expect a candidate who, after elected, comes here and boasts that he has kept his promises, when blatantly he has not kept these particular promises.... My guess is that some of those people, as it turns out, naïvely voted for you in the belief that you will keep those promises and you have betrayed them. You have just warned us this morning not to betray Londoners. However, I think you have betrayed them, and it has been revealed in response to answers to questions this morning, in two other respects. Firstly, you have accepted you paid above the...

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

You think we have had a fair deal. So you think getting something like 23% of the national funds in 2003/04, 20% last year, and something just over a quarter this year, in other words, roughly in line with our one-fifth population, is fair.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

The Greens are quite disappointed in the environment budget. I know you are putting it up by £200,000, but it still only makes it £1.5 million compared with £3 million for The Londoner and £2.2 million for all the media and marketing. We are disappointed with that, but we are also extremely disappointed with how much is going into the planning here in the building because, in fact, it is extremely stretched at the moment. The Greens recently had a report on the number of abuses of the London Plan, for example, on the waterways. I think you need to...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

With respect, following your comments on bus fares and Tube fares, which my colleague Angie (Bray, AM) has talked about, and indeed your promise to keep the Congestion Charge at £5 for 10 years, perhaps people would not be surprised if you ratted on a promise

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

We thought that we might suggest taking a million or two off it because there is a line in the security connected with G8, and since there is going to be a meeting at Gleneagles we thought the Scots could pay for that rather than the MPS, but we will not be pursuing that later. You talked before about your wish not to have wild swings of the pendulum on Council Tax. The point is made very clearly about the unsustainability. Do you have plans, a `plan B- if you like, as to how to deal with the police budget...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

You dismiss the concerns that were expressed by TfL's Finance Panel, who should know about these things?