• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 September 2004

The rate that you pay on the advertising, TfL's rate essentially, is £30,000 per page, whereas the rate of £16,000 for acres of advertising is what you have given to the private companies. Surely, something is going very badly wrong in the way that you are running the Londoner.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 September 2004

We all agree what it could do.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 September 2004

I think it is too early to say what the effects are, other than that Athens has bust way over the budget limit it is supposed to fit within the European Union rules. If you look back at Sydney, we were all told how wonderful Sydney was, but two of the venues went bust a couple of months ago; another is a sort of disused, weed?infested swamp. There is another one that is about to go bust. None would be happier than ourselves, as an avowedly patriotic party, to support the Games, but true patriotism surely is to analyse what...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 September 2004

Mr Mayor, they do not agree with you. If you look at the GLA's own poll last year, 76% have said that they will not pay the amount that you and the LDA have said is necessary for them to pay over the six-year period from 2006 onwards. On that basis, London is not supportive. Yes, we all support the general idea that it would be a nice thing to have the Olympics, but you actually have to take that a bit further. You said that you listened and learned from the Olympics in Athens, but presumably you learnt that...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 September 2004

You obviously put on the record that you will not give people the chance to actually vote on this, so I do not have any other further questions.

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

That is still concentrating power at the centre; I am suggesting that it should be devolved. You say that you have not asked people to fill in forms, but what you have done, and you have repeated it at this meeting, is instruct boroughs to designate wards and an additional five wards to have a dedicated number of police officers. We welcome the strategy, but there are many wards throughout London that do not require this number of police officers, and similarly there are other wards which require a greater concentration of police officers. Would it not make sense to...

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

Does that mean that you agree with my premise that not every ward needs the same size of neighbourhood teams?

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

The Home Office, of course, and indeed you, has created an enormous of bureaucracy and filling in forms that is required by the Home Office, which stops local police forces from actually arresting criminals. Do you not think that really the best way to deal with this would be to devolve substantial amounts of budget and autonomy to borough commanders so that they can carry out their own policing priorities, which they understand infinitely better than the Home Office?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 September 2004

At Mayor's Question Time on 18 June 2003, you said that if you were elected to a second term, bus fares would increase in line with inflation. You also said at that same Mayor's Question Time that increases beyond that level on the bus and tube would 'massively depress ridership'. You have broken your word on the first, do we assume that you no longer believe in the second proposition?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 September 2004

Is it not a bit of an old fashioned way of running transport to increase fares on buses in order to move people off them and onto other forms of transport? In the last fare round, you were increasing fares on tubes in order to push people on to buses.