• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

I think that the Mayor's visit to Cuba was one of the highlights of these Assembly meetings - particularly for the female Members, if we recall a certain Daily Mail photograph. You seem to be vying with the Home Secretary as to whether the target is 40,000 or 42,000 police officers within five years. Have you any estimates of the likely cost of achieving that - not just the cost per police officer but in the whole infrastructure, accommodation, training and so on - in such a short period? Even if we do incorporate the British Transport Police and -...

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

I was not going to come in on this, because I do not want to give Giuliani more publicity, but it makes me vomit when I hear the way people talk about this. Following what Jennette said, I visit New York three or four times a year, as you know. Anywhere in the community that I am in, the word people use for him is "seriously butters", which means totally ugly, and they say that his actions are "hank", which means they stink. There has been a lot of hero worship of Giuliani. On the police, he implemented the programme...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Are you committed, as Chair, to pursuing this issue? Is it a matter that you can't prioritise on TfL's agenda because there is so much else there? What can I say to those people who took part in that survey from North London, and the nurses, and the other healthcare workers, who see this as a real problem and it's a deterrent to them? They're thinking, "Is it safe? Do I have to find another job?" because it speaks to the economy of London. I can pursue this further with you at our forthcoming meeting but I think you should...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

What is the criteria for partnership? You talk about the partnerships that you have got with nightclubs; what's wrong with partnerships with, say, health care authorities or schools?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Listening to the issues that Jennette has raised and examples that you have given, there are some great similarities between this and Green travel plans. A lot of it is a matter of information. Can you co-ordinate the work that is being done on this and come back to the Assembly and tell us how that's going?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Can you use your directive power as Chair of TfL to ensure that your two audits of Safety Management Across the Group are discussed? The one on group issues found that safety was poorly controlled throughout TfL, across the group, and the one on safety management suggested this area needed improving and there was a lack of consistent health and safety policy across TfL. Could you then come back to this Assembly and let us know what's being done about this? I am sure that you are as unhappy as the rest of the people in the GLA will be...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

We all look forward to receiving your re-election newsletter in November which, I understand from your delegated authorities, is going to cost over £200,000 to print and deliver throughout London. Moving back to the safety issue, we had a useful discussion about your managed decline of safety standards on London buses at the last Mayor's Question Time, where you stated to us that, "Safety is discussed at every TfL board meeting" to quote your own words. What are the safety issues that are going to be discussed at the next TfL board meeting?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

It's the co-ordination of the issues.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

I appreciate that. The point, though, is this: on a sensitive local issue of conflicting priorities, why do you think that the local council, which is closer to the issue and knows the community and the site much better than you could - simply because of the other pressures you face - is not best placed to make the decision?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

Over the coming months and years, no doubt every constituency Member will have a vested interest in the issue of schools on green belt. My borough of Hillingdon - this is referred to in your "Planning First" letter notices - has a planning application for a school. Under my leadership, we opened up some 500 acres of land as green belt at Waterside and at Stockley Park, but we are now under pressure to build a school because we are bussing kids away from Ruislip to schools on the fringes, adjacent to Harrow and Ealing, which take about 50% of...