• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

I thoroughly agree with you, myself an avid non-smoker, have never smoked, never liked it. I do think it is a matter of freedom of choice. I do think the individual restaurants and bars should be allowed, and I think my question really is, the Scottish police have said they will not be in a position to enforce the ban in Scotland when it comes in ' next year or whatever ' to the Scottish Parliament. Are we seriously saying that we are going to get to a situation where people' and there are a lot of problems in Ireland...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

I am glad that you have recognised in your answer that we have moved a great distance. When you think that 30 years ago, in my experience, people were smoking in hospital wards, and the blessed Women's Royal Voluntary Service used to sell cigarettes, that we have moved a great distance, and that it is only a matter of time before we get a smoke-free London. Until that time, will you, again, use your influence to ensure that any work that this Assembly does in terms of the next couple of months to ensure that we feed in to the...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Do you think that the fact that Dr (John) Reid (Secretary of State for Health) has ruled out any suggestion that you should have powers related to your smoking ban in London means that Government has no confidence in you in public life in London?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

I absolutely agree with you, because I am an avid non-smoker, so maybe I am not quite following along my party line. You are not giving whole-hearted support to the Government's mish-mashed proposals now.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Can you provide us with a list or a map of those roads, so that local people will know clearly who is responsible for what is going on which parts of their road network, because it is confusing enough at the moment?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

When you say maximum, what do you mean by that? Do you mean them all?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

I think it is important to get on public record, as Roger (Evans) has done, to an extent, the way you intend to use those powers, but you know you kind of sold your soul to devil, did you not? If you had powers to intervene in the boroughs, you sold out, and said the Government could intervene with you, so what do you think the Government is going to use its power over you to take away your supposedly devolved powers, now that they can butt in if they do not like what you are doing?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

You are saying that TfL will effectively have a veto over work that boroughs do in certain roads.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

(Brain Coleman: I have to say, of course, the accidents are going up on TfL roads in the London Borough of Barnet, and the tragic deaths on TfL roads running through Barnet is a disgrace, Mr Mayor.) Thank you, Chair, for that point of clarification, which I am sure the public will find interesting. Can you tell us whom you have met in Government and what their response has been?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

This question derives from the TfL board meeting on 27 October, when you told board members that you wanted to tackle boroughs that might run up and have a separate transport strategy for London, and that in that case, the Government could reserve powers to transfer control of principal roads to TfL in the event of, what you called, 'that sort of recalcitrance.' What did you have in mind?