• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

So if we give advance notice of this question you will be able to give us an answer and a commitment, not an aspiration?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

Well, that is an aspiration. Can we now turn to the commitment? Of course, it will take a long time to get to 100%, but can you give us a commitment of what you would wish to achieve in 12 months' time?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

I think that certainly a majority of the Assembly very much regret that you chose to ignore our collective proposals to extend and increase the BTP on overground rail. Turning to the subject of the Underground stations for which you are responsible, are you aware that as at last November only 20% of London Underground's stations were accredited under the Department for Transport `Safer Stations Scheme'? Is it your ambition to improve that score, and if so, by how much and when?

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

Which other priority is a lesser priority as a consequence of that? What I am trying to get my head around is the extent to which" Obviously in life you have to pursue a lot of relatively easy targets and priorities, but you need to take some challenging ones on now. I think, and I think a lot of my colleagues and constituents believe, that that is a really vital one for London and we have not done enough on it yet.

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

How much last year?

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

The residents of south west London think they get a very poor deal from the LDA " almost no investment at all. As part of the changes which are being made at the LDA, I wonder if you would be able to tell me how much the boroughs of Richmond upon Thames and Kingston upon Thames currently receive from the LDA by way of investment or any other funds? Under the changes, how much is that sum going to increase?

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

Where would you find that out? It was the local authority reporting back on the consultation. Can people come directly to Tony Winterbottom if they are unhappy?

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

£132,000? That is less than £1 per head of the residents of the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames. It does not seem like a very good deal. Do you think that is a good deal?

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

You were talking about recent changes, one of which was Victor (Anderson) going to check out, and set the criteria for and examine sustainability issues. I had a presentation from a group of residents' associations in Haringey about the Haringey Heartlands development, and they certainly do not feel it is sustainable or that it has any of the skills, jobs, transport infrastructure, things that it should have, and that they were never asked for their opinion in the statutory consultation and for the results. Is it Victor who can save them from this fate worse than death, or is it...

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

Is that a priority for the LDA?