• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

So you are reluctant to make any major changes then following the Government's recommendations.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

): I have every sympathy with what you are saying about the limited powers that the LDA as an agency, actually has. This is why the strategy, and indeed the London Plan itself, is crucial in setting out a framework and a vision for all the players all the big firms that you are talking about to try and contribute to the wider regeneration and goals for London. This is why I come back to saying: do you accept what the inspectors are saying around the need to have an economic objective at the heart of the plan that stresses...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

What changes would you propose if you were to accept this?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

As you know, I would like to see the whole thing speeded up. I think that we are going to wait 20 years to do every school in London at the rate we are going so I am really concerned that we should move a bit faster on this. One of the ways that we could do it is if, for example, officers from the TOCU actually could do little detours off their main route and actually check that drivers around schools are being careful and courteous. Is that something you might consider once the scheme is rolled out even...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

To emphasise this further, to what extent would you consider rewarding " or perhaps the opposite of rewarding " boroughs who support or fail to support your priorities for road safety, such as boroughs who might oppose road humps or might wish to delete road safety. I cannot think of any boroughs beginning with B in my mind at present.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

Thank you for that reply. I think that is very welcome as far as it goes but the question that is asked by Len is about new infrastructure in London and whether the GLA can do some more to help with two things, I think. The first is to secure safety but the second is to set even higher standards a benchmark, if you like, which boroughs can be guided by in their other safety work on existing sites.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

Ken, a couple of points. I wonder if you could ask TfL to give us an update on the work that you have got them to commit to on the review of child safety. This is something that certainly we in this group have been working with you on and it is good work and we should actually hear more about it. We should also know more about the £12 million spend by TfL so will you let us have that? The other part of this question is I totally agree with everything that has been said but are you...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

): A number of borough councils, certainly Liberal Democrat run ones, have a hotline that members of the public can ring and report graffiti, abandoned vehicles, rubbish and so on. Does TfL have such a hotline and if it does not, will you institute one?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

Mr Mayor, I would have hoped to have seen some evidence of your good intentions on the line that I use, which is the District Line but unfortunately, apart from an announcement one morning that instead of the usual delays there were now going to be intervals on the London Underground, that is as much as I have seen. The trouble we have on the District Line now is graffiti internally in the trains. You have talked about trains painted with graffiti, trying to get underneath that, but in fact the graffiti is now internal and it is frankly disgusting...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 17 September 2003

Are you going to be setting performance targets in this area for TfL and what are they?