• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

I had certainly been briefed to the effect that you may have a problem in this area and I'm surprised that you haven't.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Are you saying now that this is a hell or high water initiative but you're not sure that you have the power to go ahead with it?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

The final question then is, I think you've made it clear that regardless of what precept the Assembly allows you to set, subject to its powers, you would protect this policing budget come what may, so that you would make savings in other areas. Have you therefore satisfied yourself that you actually have the legal powers to go ahead with the police initiative?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Can I move on particularly to the transport policing initiative? Again there's a question about the coherence of your budget. As I understand it, if I'm travelling on a bus route in London, there are a series of types of people who will be helping to monitor my progress. There will be bus staff, bus inspectors, traffic wardens, and staff of TfL who will be carrying out other functions. There will be people maintaining camera monitor systems, which are designed to trap infringing motorists, and on top of that you have dreamed up this additional scheme. Can you explain to...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

I think before Londoner's fork out another £100 million they do need to be persuaded that you have sweated and worked those assets, as indeed Trevor has argued and as indeed have Conservative members. Can you give an instance this year where you have taken a hard headed appraisal of one of your investments and you have concluded that the best way of funding it is through borrowing, through private public partnership, through PFI of any shape or form?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

It doesn't instil a great deal of confidence in a multi million pound organisation though, does it?

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

How much is that?

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

How much is the total shortfall overall going to be?

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

Last week at the Budget Committee, Mr Mayor, you told us that 1 in 10 drivers in London was unregistered and that their cars were untraceable. Have you made an allowance in your budget for the shortfall that you are therefore likely to have on a congestion charge scheme which uses car registrations as a basis for charging?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

But you are aware of the increasing fare avoidance, aren't you, because TfL officers have flagged it up?