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

Can you tell us how much of the proposed precept is to go on enhanced policing?

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

Will you similarly raise the appropriate digits to Croydon and Ealing, who have both said that the increases should be within 5%?

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

Therefore, you are not prepared to accept the views of those Labour local authorities who have specifically requested that the precept level be under 5%?

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

Are you prepared to undertake that your final budget will be less than 5% in terms of its precept increase?

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

Given that the figures we have been given are 12% and 15% respectively, is that something you are prepared to look at jointly with the Assembly to see if there is scope for greater efficiency in delivering the GLA core services?

• 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...