• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Is that a reflection on your status or a reflection on your value to Londoners?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Mr Mayor, it is very much appreciated the work you have been doing to try and protect women in the streets of London. I have two grown-up daughters and it is an issue how they get home late in the evenings from whatever entertainment they are at. It is appreciated that you have acknowledged that more needs to be done. But when street crime figures were going through the roof and women were extremely vulnerable within that group of individuals and the Prime Minister was getting very hot under the collar about it, did he call you into these meetings...

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

As and when you stand for re-election, will minicabs in London be licensed by then? Will it be something Londoners can judge you by?

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

I would like to explore with you, Ken, a couple of high profile and effective initiatives that you could be pursuing and I would like to hear from you your reasons for perhaps not pursuing them. You talked about Aldgate, for example, but there are many transport interchanges in London where people feel that they are going into an unsafe area as soon as they come out of the entrance of the interchange. It seems to me that you could do a lot of effective high profile work on addressing that. The second aspect, which would be enormously high profile...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Thank you, I will take up that offer. To cycle in London you have to be a fairly aggressive personality, and cyclists are going to use that route because the safe route is so slow. It all depends on how the lights are run, and those sequences mean that in some directions it's going to be very slow for cyclists - which they simply won't accept. I think it is impractical to keep that space for buses, unfortunately, but the fact is that it's going to be used by cyclists.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

I take your point, and I think Vauxhall Cross will suffer because of this. Vauxhall Cross is near where I live I feel quite strongly about it. There is, for example, a passage that goes from the south west corner up to the north east corner, which is going to be for buses only. This is an example of a lack of understanding about the human mind by the planners, because cyclists are going to use that route, whether or not it's illegal, and whether or not there is any enforcement of that, cyclists are going to use it. It...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

But do you back the Tories on this then? Do you welcome or back their views?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

Are you happy with the idea that there is what I would call a coalition of `unprinciple" in opposition to the PPP? The Conservatives have three different positions on it, the Liberals have a different one. I"m not too sure whether you agree with the Tory position, any one of the three of them, or with the Liberal position? Don't you think that there is a problem here, that basically a sort of political game is being played and it's not taking seriously the interests of Londoners in securing funding for the Tube?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

Have you had specific meetings on this, have you pressured them on it, have you agreed heads of terms with them, have you discussed the finance, have you talked through the impediments, have you sat down with Treasury Officials, have you done any of that?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

In that case you are surely going to be able to spell out to us the steps you have taken, as a leader of regional government, to negotiate with the Government to secure the funding for your alternative plans for the Tube. Can you spell those out for me? You may have failed, but can you spell out the different steps you`ve taken to try to achieve that objective?