• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Maybe people at the top end of the market come by other means but the DLR normally signposts these events. Are you going to use your power at TfL to instruct that this event be maintained in total obscurity and not be sign-posted? It could be that were you to allow the DLR to advertise this event, you could be viewed as condoning it. Were you to instruct that it not be advertised, you may be seen as taking a more principled position.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

I would like to explore that a little further because I have agreed to meet I think it is Londoners Against the Arms Fair in my constituency role because the arms fair will be held in my constituency at Excel. Events at Excel are normally reached by public transport using the DLR, which you control.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 16 July 2003

Since you would not let me come in on the question on crime and disorder, and the Anti-social Behaviour Bill in particular - and I think there is nothing more anti-social than an arms fair - can I say on behalf of my colleagues that we really welcome your attacks on the Liberal Democrat Party? It makes us feel even more important than we know we are so please continue. Can I also say that I am astonished that you, as Mayor, who say so often that you are concerned for community relations, should actually be supporting Part 4 of...

• 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.