• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Why have you still not responded to my written question, submitted on 25 July, which was asking if you would make the bus lanes, during strikes, operational for 24 hours?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

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

You are very kind. Part of the problem with red routes is that they are a blanket answer to a very complex problem. Part of that is that you are very targeted towards reduction of congestion rather than reduction of traffic. Greens would like to see a little more emphasis on the reduction of traffic. Do you think you can accommodate that?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

I discussed this matter with you last week. I have here letters from more than 905 of the householders of Malden Rushett, and a further petition with more than 400 signatures of people who use the A243. I think that you are compounding the principal problem by saying, in effect, that you are only interested in hearing from people who have had experience of the scheme, rather in advance. People in Malden Rushett, which is probably the most southerly part of the GLA - it is surrounded on three sides by Surrey - are very disenchanted at being part of...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

Thank you very much, Chair, for allowing the question to come a little further up the order. The patience of my constituents and those of Tony Arbour in sitting through this meeting should not be misunderstood, bearing in mind the very strong sense of anger about these proposals. That anger comes partly from the style of consultation we have. Sometimes we criticise you for the amount of money that is spent on publicity, but it is fair to say that consultation on this issue was not comprehensive - it has been very spotty. In addition, there is a very strong...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

When I sought election to the London Assembly, I said that one of the reasons was that I wanted to play a role on the MPA. I am proud of the role that I am playing, because I am speaking up for Londoners. Perhaps he cannot attend because he is so busy, but if the Mayor took time to read the work of the MPA with the MPS, he would find significant pieces of work there. A key conference took place yesterday about crime education and working with the community. You have constantly made this match between London and New...

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

Do you agree that the unelected nature of half of the MPA - the fact that they are appointees - blurs the accountability to Londoners that should exist? Are they some of the people to whom you felt the need to speak?

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

It is a pleasure to hear that right and left agree on the need to change drug laws in this country. I also had the privilege of meeting Mayor Giuliani and his Commissioner of Police, and I asked them what was the one most important factor that drove down crime in New York. The answer from the police was "political support". You know as well as I do that, before 11 September - say, up until 10 September - it was doubted whether Mayor Giuliani would have been re-elected had he been eligible to stand. He was regarded in some...

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

I have really enjoyed being a member of the MPA, because it is a chance to get some Green input that would be difficult to achieve by another method. But overall, you are absolutely right. I know that you often terrify your advisers by committing yourself at meetings like this to things they have not prepared you for. When you make promises about 1,000 extra police, do you consult the Commissioner about what appropriate level of promise it possible?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 27 February 2002

It does not work, then, does it - either way? One minute you are saying that you as Mayor will decide which laws should be obeyed, and you do not press hard on laws you do not like. But that does not fit with zero tolerance, does it? It cannot work like that. Is this a new form of congestion charge - exemptions from zero tolerance?