• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Given that kind offer that we should accompany you, would you agree - just a simple, practical suggestion, to publish in advance the dates when you intend to make borough visits. That would enable members not to have to put down questions of this nature to find out when you are visiting and in practice would allow not just people to ask to come but also to put suggestions and issues that you should be addressing.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

I am delighted that Bob Neill is trying to get you to go to Bromley because you really kicked up a stink when I go to his constituency and I would really like to come with you. I have got two questions and we are only allowed to have the one so I will just put in it. Are you aware that David Dilner, who is the Borough Commander, was forced to correct untrue Conservative councillors in last week's Bromley News Shopper, which I read avidly of course. He was actually forced to correct these untruths because Bromley has got...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Why did you put it in your manifesto?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

You told them as Mayor "My priorities will be to listen to Londoners about their crime, policing and safety concerns and priorities and to make sure that these are reflected in the Metropolitan Police's strategies and the plans developed by the local crime and disorder partnership". How have Bromley's concerns been reflected in the way the resource allocation formula is put together and the way police are allocated in their borough? What have you done about it?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

The problem is, in fact, other Bromley residents, other council tax payers, are subsidising them. Would you bear in mind when you meet them that in the manifesto that you put out to - and some people in Bromley voted for you.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Will you perhaps reflect that when you meet the people in Bromley in September of this year, that over the two years that have elapsed since you last set foot in the borough, they have become particularly concerned that the level of council tax increase the Bromley residents pay is not reflected in any services that they get from the Greater London Authority or its broader family in any commensurate measure. Will you particularly explain to them how it is that one can boast of having the highest ever numbers of police officers in London when the number of officers...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Would you bear in mind, on that basis, since crime in Bromley has increased by 9% despite the best efforts of the limited numbers of officers there, on the logic that you just advanced they should have an increase in police officers, not a reduction? Bear in mind also that Bromley contributes some £29 million by way of precepts and the average household spends some £224 of your precept.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Can you remember the last time you visited Bromley?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

It is nothing to do with the Mayor?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

I know that you have increased the budget both years for road safety but it is still fairly pathetic. Given that this seems to be something that an awful lot of members of the Assembly are now taking up, is it time you actually increased it again but more dramatically?