• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

How many fines do you expect the system to issue in error, in other words to people who have not actually driven into the zone?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

After going to the ABD meeting it was clear to me that the congestion charge does need a lot of selling to organisations like that and I would suggest that a real point is made of the fact that illegal drivers cost legal drivers a huge amount of money and they also cost society a lot of money. I think a charm offensive has got to be done with the AA and the RAC and the ABD. Have you started that charm offensive?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

At a meeting of the Association of British Drivers that I went to recently " The Mayor: - You must have been welcome there! Jenny Jones: Yes, good training. They were suggesting that they would even be un-registering themselves, becoming illegal as a response to the congestion charge. It"s already true that something like 10% of pedestrian deaths are from hit and run accidents and quite a sizeable proportion of those are from illegally registered drivers who can't be caught. I do see this as a big potential problem and I feel that, while you are taking the issue of...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

And I am sure you will let us all have a copy of it?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

Derek Turner told us yesterday at the Transport Policy Committee that this element of the exercise would be a labour-intensive, manual process requiring people to spend a lot of time on it. The Mayor: - But you have to do it. Roger Evans: Yes, I wondered if you had done any work on the number of people you would need to employ or the amount it would cost or the level of resources that you would need to put into the whole issue of dealing with appeals from people who are wrongly fined?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

But will the GLA continue to contest any appeals or will there be conditions under which you would decide to drop a case before it reaches appeal?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

In that case please take that as a request for that detailed information which I hope you will be able to provide. What will be the GLA's policy about taking disputed tickets to appeal?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Moving on to probationers and how they're treated on the boroughs, I'm very well aware that borough commanders have very different attitudes to them. So, I'm very positive about seeing it as an opportunity and others see it as a real pain. Are we doing anything to actually monitor the way the borough commanders are thinking about their intake, and whether this is having an impact on the intake of the probationers?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

You did - not traffic. Two questions - one on the percentage of women now, amongst probationers, and whether that's fluctuated through the intakes.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

One thing to clarify in your opening statement, and that is you mentioned 200 more officers on transport. Please tell me you meant traffic, which is what I've understood.