• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

Can you give me an answer, please, on what percentage of your total advertising budget is going to be spent outside London?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

I am thinking about people who may be bringing elderly relatives to hospital, all sorts of things. People who have rung me have no idea what to do, who to contact. They thought it was going to be the Post Office and now, of course, we know it's not going to be the Post Office. Since that's gone they don't know where to go. I am wondering if you are giving serious consideration to advertising in the national newspapers or across the ITV network to make sure that it's not just Londoners that know about it. Otherwise, they are going...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

Through London, I'm talking about outside London.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

Having not told me that, perhaps you would like to go further and tell me, of that amount that you're spending on advertising, what is the percentage that is being spent on advising people of this scheme and what they should do in order to get in contact with the right people and buy their passage in from outside the London area? I am getting lots of calls now from people who live way away from London who haven't got a clue. I am wondering what you're spending in terms of promoting what they should do outside the London area.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

It would not cost you very much to do something like complete the London Cycle Network or even start to think about an Orbirail network. These things would actually benefit Londoners. A member of each of the political groups here have just been to Paris and the difference there is that the political will exists to fund these things. Here in London the political will doesn't exist.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

But there is no actual money for amelioration if unexpected difficulties arise?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

Can I move on? On congestion charging: wish it well, hope, believe it may work but my fingers are slightly crossed behind my back. When you say IT, there are issues that we have raised continually. IT may not have slipped but it may slip up so I wouldn't be too confident on the IT side of the project yet. What I did want to say is that given that I think there will be some challenges and some problems, even though it will work, I don't see in this budget - and could you explain to me - where...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

A little one. We surveyed your survey. Ken, the point is that your survey was flawed so we've conducted a small survey on your survey.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

We'll see. I don't think prudence has changed through that part of the budget. Secondly, we did a survey of 500 people in west London on the Ealing tram, and 83.5% of the people responding are completely and utterly against the tram. So, at £18.6 million, whilst I adore trams, perhaps this isn't the right place to be putting your money, on this project. It simply doesn't have the support and there may be a better place to put a tram.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

I have asked you about Safe Routes to School before now and that would cost £65 million, that's for every single school in London. At the rate that you're financing it, it's going to take 20 years for every child in London to have that safe route to school. I think that's ignoring your responsibility to the future of London.