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

Our job and your job is to stick up for London. You have already acknowledged that the Government is taking billions, whether it is £9 billion or £15 billion, it is many billions out of the London economy in extra tax revenues more than we are getting back. Are you still of the view you were back in January 2003, when you were not in the Labour Party at that point, and you wrote to Nick Raynsford (Minister for Local Government) about the funding and he replied that he noted your concern about the lack of firm announcements on the...

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

I am not sure I or anybody else follows the logic of that.

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

Finally, given you have mentioned borrowing, what element of the TfL budget is made up of borrowing?

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

In terms of our tax contributions, which you have just referred to, it is considerably more than that. If you look at the list of critical national infrastructure, surely London has very considerably more than roughly one-fifth of the national resources, the national assets?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Do you not therefore agree with us that surely if you are not prepared to accept that the Assembly can vote on even something as minor and small as that and make such a recommendation, that really our supposed powers over this budget process, or involvement in it, is effectively a sham?

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

We will very happily take that debate when you go round in a few weeks time saying vote for Mr Blair, vote Labour, of the inconsistencies in your own position. However, in terms of what is before us today is it not a fact that central Government having gifted us some of the resources London needs is not paying for the running costs? Something like £14 million a year is in LFEPA's budget to pay for running costs for Resilience assets, both those that Government has provided and those that London taxpayers have had to pay for. Is that fair?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 23 February 2005

If that option was available. One of the issues brought to attention is the difficulty of deaf and hard of hearing people when announcements are made at the last minute and so they have no opportunity to adjust their behaviour whether it is a cancellation or to catch a train. I did not understand within your answer whether anything had actually arrived that would change that situation. It seemed to me from what you were saying that the technology is now available in dot matrix form, but that clearly is not the experience of people. Therefore, when there is a...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 February 2005

Can we ask the Mayor to send us a written update on what is happening about ensuring that guide dogs and their keepers or walkers can use the Underground? It is in the system somewhere in TfL and I would like an answer to an outstanding question which is about 18 months old.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 23 February 2005

On any station that is receiving an improvement through the PPP, is there an audit of all the things that are promised in the upgrade, that they are delivered and implemented and operated? My concern is they do not get paid.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

I thought it was going to be a monthly arrangement so I hope I can hold you to that. My second point is really that the real property speculator in all this does seem to be the Mayor himself actually. I do not want to go too far in this because I know my colleague has got a question on it but it really is unbelievable when it is him that has actually admitted that he is banking on the fact that he is going to be able to sell the land at considerable profit to help repay some of...