• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 May 2003

Those of us who listen to local radio were privileged to hear a TfL advertising campaign earlier this year attempting to make the cameras popular. What were the objectives of that ambitious campaign and how much did it cost?

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 21 May 2003

Is that yes then?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 21 May 2003

Ken I am really glad to hear that basically you see that road safety goes beyond speed cameras; it goes into needing 20 mile an hour zones and special schemes around schools and playgrounds. I am pleased to hear that Transport for London have apparently said that £12 million will be going into such schemes locally over the next three years I think. My concern is just to make sure that Transport for London takes account of the growing body of research that shows that children in the poorer areas, the deprived communities, are more at risk. I think it...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 May 2003

I wonder if you could do two things. At TfL, could you ask for a report from the London Safety Camera Partnership, and ask them to comment on it, and to bring ideas on how things could be done more efficiently? Is that a possibility?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 May 2003

I did not have anything to do with the article. Before the article, my information for over a year was that the facts within it were substantially correct. So, we have been operating safety cameras at ludicrously high levels. Does it really matter whether that is correct or not? The fact is that at the moment, safety cameras are taken as a bit of a joke by the police. I am asking you now if you will help me in some way make the police and the Police Authority take this issue seriously. For example, even if there is film...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 May 2003

There is a philosophy here which I am trying to get to because I want to know your opinion on why these cameras are there. Either they are noticeable at accident spots so as to reduce the number of casualties, or you have them concealed all around the road system to reduce speed generally everywhere. Which of those approaches do you think is appropriate?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 May 2003

Yet, surely, if your advertising campaign is correct, the aim of speed cameras is to slow people down at accident black-spots where they need to be visible. What is the point of hiding them and how is that consistent with the aim of your campaign stated in the advertising?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 May 2003

We have some papers coming to the Police Authority at the next meeting, which is actually setting up a murder investigation team that will have 135 extra officers. This is a new team. I am sorry that Toby Harris is not here, but the fact is that the traffic division of the police has been waiting for years; they are 77 officers short at the moment; they have 30 allocated which have not been sent; it has all been frozen. Is there no way that you can lean on the Commissioner? You must have meetings with him: is there no...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 21 May 2003

There was no consensus.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 May 2003

Have you met with representatives from the communities associations, TELCO, and their campaign for a living wage, which is something that has taken off in a number of American cities with public sector workers and others? Will you be signing the GLA up to the Campaign for a Living Wage and urging London Boroughs to do the same?