• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

What evaluation has TfL made of the implications of introducing free bus travel for under 18s? (Q15/2002 - YOUNG PASSENGERS)

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Lord Harris, can I go back to this policing initiative with the Mayor? We've heard from the Mayor this morning that there's a pilot going on. I believe that Commander Shave has been sent over to look after that initiative and set it up. I'd like to know, considering this year's budget is so tight, where the funding is coming for that? Has there been a transfer of funding from TfL to pay for this present initiative? This year I'm talking about, not the 240 we're going to recruit.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Chairman, thank Mr Godwin for that, but Chairman, if the MPA decides that this initiative, and we are talking about the CF as late as this, and this initiative is not going ahead, how are you going to tell the Mayor? No doubt, he's already got a press release winging out this very minute!

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Thank you. Now we've got Commander Shave there Chairman, I wonder if you can't answer this, perhaps he can. Does the Mayor expect next year, when he's going to get 240 for his transport initiative, for there to be a first call on police manpower, the extra officers going into the borough?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Now what I meant, Chairman, what I think concerns Londoners, is there are three crimes growing through the roof and the leaders of the Labour group here and Liberal group sit on the MPA in significant positions, and seems to have done very little to address those real issues. And that's what Londoners are concerned about, not your relationship in terms of that, and you've clearly spelt out time and time again, and today again that you didn't discuss with Lord Tope anything to do with that initiative, you didn't discuss the RAF the initiative in detail. That's what you...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Fine. Let's go to your friends in the ALG. They take the view that the MPA gross budget, that the efficiency targets we've got, actually could be somewhat higher. Is that your view? Do you think actually more could be achieved in terms of efficiency given that you've now taken a personal interest?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

And who is actually running the MPA?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Is that success or failure as Chairman of the MPA?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

You also said on 12 December that there are a number of issues in connection with grant funding where we continue to have concerns. There's an awful lot of "wes" in here, I presume by we you mean the Authority rather than the royal "we" that we are used to? You mentioned counter-terrorism costs, which we've dealt with, but you also had a list of other things. You said on 12 December, "Our view is that the MPA is being short changed [by the Government] on the funding for the London pay lead". You said, "The MPA is the only...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

On 12 December, talking about RAF at the time, when you said, "You could say it was Graham's fault", which I think refers to Lord Tope, you also said, "We did not have that detailed discussion", that is with Lord Tope, who was the Chairman of that, and you have just said now, "You have not had a detailed discussion with him who is also Chairman of Finance", but you did comment on 12 December and said, "In retrospect, one of the things I have to recognise, is that I have to take much more detailed control over MPA initiatives...