• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

And if you are not successful with the Government, which you don't appear to be in terms of Tube negotiations or much else, to be honest, where is that extra cost going to be met from? From the council tax or from borrowing or from what?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Can I ask if you've done any costings of the 35,000 and how you expect to pay for that extra amount of policing?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

The Home Office is so committed to policing in London that they have cut the allocation of police community support officers from 500 to 250. When you consult passionately the people of London over additional police officers, do you explain that it will probably cost £750 million to go up to 35,000 and this would probably be a trebling in the precept or do you just say, "Would you like more police officers"?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Thank you. I would just like to point out that if you are proposing to extend your congestion charge scheme to areas which would exclude specifically those areas, they are, of course, some of the most deprived parts of London and given your insistence that so many people don't have cars, I would suggest that if there are people without cars it would be precisely in those sorts of areas. It is all the more important that you would make sure that they were adequately provided with new bus routes.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

I'm talking specifically about North Kensington; could you address your remarks to North Kensington? Are the new bus routes that you have just referred to being put in to try and link in the Delgano Estate and other places?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Having heard you say in the previous answer that the buses have been done, that suggests to me that you don't think there is going to be much more work done on buses. The problem is that a large swathe of North Kensington appears to be very poorly served indeed; I am thinking around the Delgano Estate, Little Wormwood Scrubs up to Kensal Rise. I spoke to officers from the Royal Borough earlier this week and they confirmed that there are outstanding requests for some improved bus services and also new routes to try to get that large area of...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Have you got a feel for how many people might be affected by that basic error and whether there are any other really basic A, B, C type errors within this system that --

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

If someone phoning in with their number plate says, 'O' rather than, 'Zero', is that their mistake or is it your mistake for not making the system sensitive to what seems to be a pretty basic shortcoming?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Not at Victoria, there is over 100% increase.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

: I am never quite clear when TfL is counting in the effects of the Central Line and when it's not. When we asked them about the impact of Victoria Station and the extra passengers that seem to be using the Underground there, we were told that that was definitely the effect of the loss of the Central Line. Yet, we've been given extra ridership on buses and I just wondered whether that might also have something to do with the lack of the Central Line.