• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

I am here as a member of the Assembly, Mr Mayor, and I am asking you a question as a member of the Assembly. You may be aware that I know rather more about the answers to the questions than you appear to do but I am giving you an opportunity.

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

There is a large amount of misinformation around. The other element of misinformation, a culmination of Europe, Brussels and you, which is exciting the media, what is the level of total Entertainment Budget for the London House, Brussels? Is this another area of proper good expenditure or is this an area where there is a lot of misinformation about?

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

There have been newspaper reports that a member of staff was dismissed; is that true or false? The Mayor: That is false. Toby Harris: There have been some suggestions, again, no doubt from the press, that the two break-ins at the office were an inside job. Was there a police investigation and what was the outcome of that?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

I have been lobbied by residents of Kensington and Chelsea about the road works that are, perhaps, associated with this removal of the bus lanes and which have had a huge knock-on effect to bus times and bus reliability. They have also said that they have seen that the road works are not worked on all day. I just wondered if you had any feedback on that?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

It appears that the Mayor and I have had the same detailed briefing on the Kensington and Chelsea bus lane. It introduces an interesting question about priority here. Kensington and Chelsea have removed the bus lanes, in one case to widen a pavement for pedestrians and in another case to put in another pedestrian crossing, which I believe Transport for London have approved as being safer than what was there before. Are you saying that you support Kensington and Chelsea - you made some positive noises about that in connection with Angie Bray - in their drive to improve pedestrian...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

Would you describe yourself as being `anti-car'?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

I was going to read to you a chapter from a Tory book on Transport Policy but I would not want to give her the free publicity that that would entail. I think the best possible solution for Londoners would be if we could take the more silly end of the politics out of this debate, and I was wondering what you could do to help that to happen in terms of maybe defining the rules by which we would work on bus lanes and accept that on some occasions they might make reasonable sense to be removed.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

It could be argued that, with the technology around it, that this particular example is not the world's best example of a bus lane removal that is unanswerably a bad thing, although my assumption is that bus lanes are a good thing and that they should be supported. What lies behind this question though is that the Conservative Party seem to be developing a libertarian approach to road use in London, which says that, essentially, bus lanes are a bad thing although they try to fudge it. I think this might be a battle line in the next couple of...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

So the statement was made but there was no plan of action of how to implement it?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 23 October 2002

And yet you have made this commitment to be an age-positive employer.