• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Have you done any investigation on whether the introduction of PPP will make handling these types of incidents easier or more difficult, and if so, are there any measures you plan to take to help out?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Thank you for that, and obviously action has been taken since I last raised this issue. But also since I last raised this issue we've had a continuing spate of incidents, notwithstanding the reduction recorded by London Underground. We had a steel bolt thrown through a train window when it was travelling at speed, nearly injuring passengers. We've had the embankment set on fire alongside Goodmays Park, which actually stopped the whole system and potentially endangered the whole trainload of passengers. We have children still getting on to the lines. Is there anything else you have planned to deal with...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

You could look at our bus report, which suggested that you look at the Gibney Project that happened in the United States.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

I wonder if the Mayor could settle a dispute between John and I? If you can introduce buses - and you are the Chair of Transport for London - why can't you introduce Transport for London small vehicles, and run them? Introduce a small vehicle as part of your fleet. If you identified areas where you find the largest group of young people coming out of clubs, then you could introduce a Transport for London small vehicle service. Have you explored this? John says that Transport for London couldn't do this, but have you explored that approach?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

The Royal Town Planning Institute recently called for a relaxation of development rules in the green belt to ease the housing crisis. Do you support them?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

We can all welcome, and we do welcome, those steps. My point is that that is not enough and this is why my second question is around the role you play in terms of getting others around the table. If you accept that the Speeding Up Delivery report is correct in terms that there is a capacity in the building industry, for example; if you accept that the boroughs have got to up their own game in terms of speeding up the planning process; if you accept, as you have implied you do, that boroughs need to step up to...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

But they don't add up to the total that you have set. That is the point. My question is do you accept that list does not add up to the 28,000, which is your target in the Housing Commission?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

I appreciate the need to read the press release into the record and we should, indeed, be grateful that this subject, which the Liberal Democrats regard as crucially important for London, is the subject of your media spin for today. What I want to do is to get beyond that long list of aspirations for the future to draw your attention to the fact you haven't actually answered the question, which was, "How many extra affordable housing units have been built as a direct result of the steps you have taken?" The answer is what mathematicians would call `tending to...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

You say you have no powers to tell the MPA but that wasn't really the question. The question was have you invited them to contribute in this way?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Given that you could do with a quick housing feather in your cap, and given that the housing for key workers has been such an issue and was part of the scrutiny led by Meg Hillier, I wondered what you had actually done in terms of getting people together. It is quite obvious that the educational establishments, the health authorities and the Metropolitan Police are big land owners? Have you done anything to try and convince them to come up with some land and a scheme to provide key worker housing so you don't get back to the police house...