• 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?

• 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: Len Duvall 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...