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

No you are not, because I am talking about the democratic issue here which you seem to be avoiding. Londoners also have views on the environment, Mayor, and despite that, 66% of them did not want your Congestion Charge extension, so they can all have their views on the environment as well as you. You are supposed to listen to Londoners, you have not done. Why £73 million when 66% of Londoners do not want the extension?

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

One of the ideas I floated to you on many occasions, along with all the trying to make Londoners safer on the roads, is the idea of having police units in each borough dedicated to road safety ' road safety teams. TfL was recently asked by a Conservative colleague ' thank you Roger, (Evans, AM) ' if they would do this and they said they could not do it because the police would have to administer it. That is clearly nonsense because through the TOCU we already have police doing TfL work. Is that something you might reconsider?

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

Yes, but only by 10 basis points.

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

The price was too cheap then?

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

I want to focus on Resilience. We are all very conscious of the present threats to London and Londoners. I do not want to go down the line of whether your Government's foreign policies are actually making those threats greater or less; I want to stick to our operational responsibilities. Do you think London gets a fair share of national resources for the Resilience effort in the fire service?

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

Therefore, a vote against your budget is a vote against further reductions in crime in London?

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

There is proof if you believe your own propaganda you will believe anything.

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

How many of the 680 staff currently employed are engaged in work which directly relates to your statutory as opposed to your non-statutory functions?

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

You characterised the central Government funding for the police as not just better than it has ever been ' I am not in the business of trading figures on that; we are delighted to see the support ' but also characterise it as objectively good. That is the message I hear. Mr Martin, as Treasurer of the MPA, wrote to the Home Office on 6 January, using I think quite restrained language and pointing to three issues which he says we want to keep on the agenda. I would like your comments on this as someone who now has far...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Given that the fear of crime is rife across London, given that violent crime is escalating, as we saw in the papers yesterday and the day before, and indeed with the Home Office's own figures, and given that the MPS has the second worst detection rate of crime in the whole of the country, where do you think they should be spending the generous allowances that you give them?