• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

So you put in for Government, but you did not actually cost the effects that it would have on Londoners.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Are you saying you expect your bus fare increase will not reduce the number of people travelling on the buses, because that is not what you were saying at your press conference.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

What is the cost of operating this scheme?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

I am sure you did not intend to mislead the Assembly just now, but I suggest to you that you have not just returned from Europe - you are still in Europe. Would you agree that one of the big problems, particularly in the United Kingdom, is that successive governments have added to EU rules and regulations? What are you doing to discourage your own Government from this form of additionality?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

However you try to get around it, do you not agree that it is unnecessary interference by the EU in London's transport strategy and that there is nothing really that you or anyone can do to prevent it?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Could you perhaps consider encapsulating the philosophy you mentioned by asking them to put out a paper or undertake a campaign on that?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

You mentioned a very sound opinion that the EU should not get involved in these sort of micro areas. Is it something you could get London House to lobby on?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Did London House do anything to counter this threat?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

We are looking at ways to circumvent the EU rules in this, are we not?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Given the stance taken by UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party), are you perhaps a little surprised that one of their first acts on being elected to this Assembly was to sign up to a ring-fence agreement to protect the staffing at Brussels House?