• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Yes. Can I just come back and say, it is the levers associated. The levers associated are quite powerful levers, and they work against young people.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

I want tough penalties for adult men behaving badly, in the same way that we targeted young people.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

How much waste is now actually being re-processed in London?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Even it is not going off to China, we still need to be re-processing far, far more waste actually in London and recycling it in London. Were you concerned that over the previous four years, progress was quite slow in terms of getting things up and running in London and getting these new plants? When can we start seeing more plants over and above the ones you have already mentioned?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

My key concern is about the mismatch ' I think everybody shares this ' between the improving safety standards we now have on the buses and the Underground and the appalling situation on the overground system. The Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) came to see me recently, and they are briefing against the Rail White Paper. In particular, they are briefing against the proposal that London should have more responsibility for franchising overground rail in London. They seem completely unaware of the inadequate customer services on the issue of safety that many train operators and stations are operating in...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Well, I am happy to tell you that I have kicked Bob Kiley around. I am sure you would have done it in a more sensitive place than I, and he has undertaken that this funding will be used, and the CCTV will be in place, but if there are going to be obstacles put in front of organisations like CDRPs who acknowledge, as most Londoners do, that this is a very important thing to occur, this ought to be fast-tracked by TfL, because this funding, as you know, is only available once.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

You mentioned other funding for CCTV. Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs) have been offering money for CCTV provision at railway stations. Hounslow, for example, have offered money to TfL to prime the pump for CCTV at Turnham Green. We are going to be extremely lucky if it is going to be installed before the end of the financial year and that funding is lost.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

I absolutely agree with everything that Val (Shawcross) has said, but my concern is when we do get these CCTV cameras inside trains, what is actually going to happen when there is an incident on a train. How is it going to be responded to? Whose responsibility is it going to be? I had a very, very nasty experience last night at 7.30pm going home on the Shepperton train to Hampton, where there were a gang of youths - two girls and three boys. One of the boys was 11, and the other one was 14, and they were about...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Sometimes you do seem to treat Members a little bit with disdain, if I may say so. The Assembly's only real power lies in its scrutiny role, and your office seems to prevent that sometimes. For example, over a month ago, UK Independence Party (UKIP) requested information from your office about The Londoner, and I understand several requests for this information have since been made to you and your staff by the Secretariat on our behalf. Over a month has elapsed since the first approach, and we still have no answer.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Overwork is your excuse in that case.