• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Mayor, could I stop you. I can see you have got quite a lot there, and I do welcome everything you have said. I welcome all of that, and I have various schemes here, that I was going to ask you if you would support, but in fact, I can see you are trying to do huge amounts to combat climate change, which is what we are trying to do, as well, Darren (Johnson) and I. Nonetheless, at the same time, you are actually adding to the problem with more road building and in particular the Thames Gateway Bridge. Now...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Can I ask you specifically about the Kyoto targets and the fact that the TfL Business Plan is now saying that we are highly unlikely to achieve those. Could I ask that the plans come forward? Indeed, TfL's environment report, which is notably silent on this, actually says what it would take to achieve those, because I know you are signed up to it, as indeed we are, so can we see what it would take to do it?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

You think we will be happier this time, then, than last time.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

That is a very welcome reply, Mayor, and I am very grateful for that, and obviously, my constituents ' I had always hoped this was not a party political issue ' are anxious about keeping their Tube station open. I do not really think I need to ask you anything further. I was going to ask whether you would be happy to issue a statement following this meeting clarifying that, so it can be paraded properly in the local press, and we can end this uncertainty.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

I am sorry that the questions about the East London Line have got scattered through the agenda, but this is an important one for us in south London. I gather that the regeneration report may not be as positive as we had wanted. We did want to build both a transport case and a regeneration case for putting stops in Brixton and Loughborough Junction on the East London Line Extension. Can I ask you whether or not, as Chair of TfL, you would take on board the broader issue of the state of the stations? I am conscious that TfL...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

This, in part, subsumes my Question 1603, which relates to the answers that you have already given. The partners that you have left out of this are the people who actually sell the alcohol, both the on-licence trade and the off-licence trade. I certainly agree with you that this is a matter, primarily for boroughs to have their own strategies. What we have done is to draw up a code of conduct with the pubs and the pub chains to ensure that there is not aggressive discounting. There is too much of the old 'Gin Alley' policy ' you know...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

The other question as you say, there is a real difference between quiet streets with the occasional pub and some of these mega-pubs in town centres, and in addition, places like Romford in Roger Evans's constituency or other parts in outer London, where there is not just one, but several of these super-pubs or nightclubs or drinking establishments. Do you think that the planning and regulatory regime is sufficient yet to, for example, look at questions of whether we should restrict the number of those premises, where we should require people who manage those premises to pay towards policing in...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

I think this is an area where Londoners would really like to see progress and partnership between GLA, boroughs, the MPS, and so on, and I am sure that every Member around this table has anecdotes and detailed work on problem areas in this respect. Now, I welcome what you have said so far about strategies and frameworks. I was wondering if that included work on Capital Standards and anti-social behaviour strategies. It may well be that there is a further challenge here in the relationship with GOL. Can you give us a timescale on which we might actually see...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

I will have two further brief questions, Chair. The first is about the relationship between this and the potential for 24-hour drinking in London, and I think, again, a lot of Londoners will be ' particularly those who live near these town centres, and it is a particular problem in some of the suburbs ' will be nervous about 24-hour drinking, and its implications for crime and disorder and, I guess, would want to be reassured that these frameworks and strategies are in place for when that happens.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Do we take it from that that it is your view that White Papers actually do not reflect Government policy, because that will come as a bit of a surprise to most people who have been involved in public life for some time?