• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Can I ask the Mayor what contingency plans are in place in the event of a civil emergency, should he be unsuccessful in preventing a fire fighter's strike?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Can I ask about your role on the London Resilience team? I understand you to be the public face. No doubt that's in recognition of your skills as a great self-promoter, but can I ask whether you're managing to get this information out to the public, and particularly I understand that the Financial Services Authority has said that up to 40% of those small and medium sized businesses have no contingency plans. Other ones have not updated their plans. The BMA has in fact criticised the way in which these plans, being put together by the London Resilience teams, are...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

We've got a target of 80% acceptable performance, which was reduced to 70% this quarter, after being at 80% all the time TfL have been running it. You're now speculating that you might reduce that figure further to 65%, I think that's what you've just said to us here. Can you just enlighten us about the way TfL make these decisions? Is it something that happened and that you've found out about in retrospect and you're defending or because safety in TfL is not important enough to be discussed about at board level? Or is it something that you and...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

We all welcome measures to encourage people to use the bus. Buses are travelling slower than they have done for the past two years; they're also less safe. Can you tell us why TfL have agreed to reduce the acceptable driving standard for buses from 80% to 70%? And did you, as Chair of TfL or any of your representatives on the TfL board - perhaps in particular the Trade Union reps. who talk a lot about safety - make any representations about that to Surface Transport before they made that decision?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

If it's going into buses, could you be persuaded to make sure that those buses are in outer London and providing orbital transport?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Given that this is going to cost £50 million, and I'm unsure whether to deduct that from £130 million or £80 million revenue on congestion charging because I'm unclear as to what that predicted actual income will be, do you have any plans for the remaining £80 million and could you be persuaded to spend that in outer London for a change?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

I haven't attended a meeting with young people where free bus travel, and possibly free travel on the Tube for under-18s, hasn't proved popular. I think it's popular, because many young people, particularly in education, have very limited incomes. There is a lot of evidence that people are forced out of education by their low incomes. On the one hand, I'm delighted you might be copying Labour policy. The problem we have is that you have been all over the place on this. You started this year saying it was totally unaffordable, when you then attended a meeting with me...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

I note that you are suggesting it is basically a conspiracy of the Evening Standard and London's mass of taxi drivers. But you are stating you have total confidence in Derek [Turner] and in his implementation of all of the policies to control traffic in London, is that clear?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

If I focus on one particular aspect of this; are you happy with the way in which policies and developments are being co-ordinated within TfL Street Management? It seems to have had a lot of flak and it is not just the Evening Standard.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Do you accept that the Transport for London Board has overall responsibility for securing integration of Transport for London services?