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

There are many ways of measuring the success of the police in the capital. The 1829 Act said that their function was for the prevention and detection of crime and the promotion of the public tranquillity. Which of those would you have thought was the most important?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

You always say that and I am not trying to have it. You cannot say that there is nothing in the entire budget the size of TfL that you cannot reduce. You can always, always throw the 603 bus in my face, and I am happy to have it, because that is a bus service that was needed and you could still push it to a full service. However, you always use that argument and it is totally invalid in the context in which I am arguing with you.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Before my question, just to comment on the proposed expansion of Congestion Charging to target hotspots in the boroughs, I would entirely agree with you. I have been nagging you for some to look at it that way, so long as the boroughs are king in all of that. However, I would remind you of the investment you had to put into public transport to make the Central Charging Zone work, and that if you start to bring in targeted congestion in the suburbs to look also at the budget you would need to ensure there are public transport improvements...

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

In your introduction you made great play of not betraying Londoners. Do you not think you have betrayed Londoners? In May, before the election, you promised no planned increases to Tube ticket prices. When you introduced the last fare package you said `The new fare package will stand for the next four years, with any further annual increases pegged to no more than inflation.- You made similar commitments with regard to the cost of the Congestion Charge. Later this morning, you talked about being elected because you were a man who kept his promises. Why does nobody believe you today...

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

I just feel there is no real sense of urgency about this. It makes me panic for the future of London because it is now that we need to start saying this is protected flood plain, this is dedicated for allotments, or for sports fields. We have got rid of so many sports fields in London. We absolutely must make sure that any school in East London has a sports field and enough allocation of green space for the children to play in, but there seems to be no urgency to it. Helen (Hughes, Executive Director, Resources & Equalities, LDA)...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

I have a couple of questions to do with Resilience. A number of my constituents up until last night were on the phone to me and they just wanted you to be clearer about what you said in your opening statement in terms of how they can be assured that this budget will not compromise the outcome of the consultation process on the London Plan. For instance, I would ask you to show me where there are the reserves in LFEPA's budget. For instance, if I can just point to the removal of two fire engines from one part of...

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

I have two further questions. The first is about the environmental concerns around the Thames Gateway Bridge. Although there already has been some progress in this direction, I wonder whether you are happy publicly to offer to those with concerns that there will be a proper environmental audit of the impact of the bridge. I am thinking of the interests of my constituents who live in the footfall of the bridge and also those who live in places like Poplar where the air quality is catastrophic. The effects on childhood asthma, disease, and life expectancy of elderly people with respiratory...

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

Can you confirm the five additional Neighbourhood Policing Teams that we are getting in each London borough and what impact that is likely to have on crime?

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

You will not be surprised that my questions are on the Congestion Charge extension, which like the West London Tram was one of the issues that saw you heavily defeated in West London. Whatever your boasts about your election victory, it has to be said that Steven Norris (Conservative Mayoral Candidate) did extremely well in West London on both those issues, as did my colleague Richard Barnes (AM) and me, doubling our votes. Therefore, please let us have no more about how you won on the issues at the ballot box - you did not where it counted. On the...

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

If you do not get the decision you could be wasting huge amounts of money that could be much better spent on other matters, or just saving the Council Tax payer a bit of money that would otherwise go completely down the drain. How much are you planning to spend on legal costs over the next year or so?