• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Okay, here is something you can do, which I have asked TfL for more than once. The major accidents hotspots in London are at major junctions, which generally are TfL's junctions. What happens is that there is no safe way to cross at each arm on the junction simultaneously. I actually cut my political teeth as a mother of young children working with other mothers to get the Archway Road/Shepherd's Hill junction changed to an all red pedestrian phase at every arm of the junction. That took years and years to achieve. Later on, when I was in charge of...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

So are you going to insist on that?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Okay, so you are not supporting 20mph zones around every school and hospital?

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Chair, if I could just give you a quote, which will be of interest to colleagues opposite. If anything, it says that what they say in this place and what others say in other places will just expose them for what they are. The quote is "I would actually tax what are called workplace parking spaces; I would actually tackle the causes on congestion, the people who do actually drive in because they have got nice, convenient parking spaces. You can make a lot of money out of that." I suppose the last part of that will be quite clear...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

My fear on this is that your major concerns are not about overcoming the technical obstacles but are about the public opinion figures which you talked about. The difference between congestion charging and workplace parking is that you have gone out there and sold congestion charging. You have explained the benefits, you have promoted it and that has actually helped build up public opinion. You have done nothing to stimulate debate on a workplace parking levy to encourage it, to promote is, to build up public support for it and that is probably one of the reasons why it is...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

During the last mayoral campaign, I thought it was actually the policy of most of the mayoral candidates to bringing in a workplace parking levy. I am pretty sure it was all of them actually but it was dropped like a hotcake by you and Susan Kramer. What happened?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Are you aware that the resource allocation project (RAP) formula promoted by the Liberals and supported by the Labour Party is undermining your policy on adequate policing. I have got your manifesto here in front of me to remind me of that. In the suburbs, RAP has meant that it is not going to be possible to allocate the extra police as Nicky Gavron has asked for. In Richmond, for example, there are only 1.6 police officers per thousand population. This has meant that the extra £4 million which they have had to pay in precept has, in fact, not...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

You have got on to the topic of anti?social behaviour there I think. As I am sure you know, it is not just the kind of incidents that Nicky Gavron has described but more serious situations. For example, crack houses cause misery for Londoners and the people that live around them. What is your view of the Anti-social Behaviour Bill that recently had its reading in the House? Do you think it will deliver for London? What do you think of the fact that Liberal Democrat MPs have voted against it, including the Home Affairs spokesperson?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Have you thought about how many stations and streets there are in every ward?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Our position - the Labour position - is that we want to see more police on the Tube and the overground and we have been campaigning on transport safety for a very long period. I want to point out that out of the 324 stations in London, only about 40 have been accredited yet under the Secure Station scheme and the TfL piloting of secure interchanges is actually proceeding rather slowly. I want you to be clear now with us about your plans for policing the Tube now that you have just taken it over.