• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

I do not want to pre-empt anything I am going to ask you next week, but there are features of that draft transport strategy - for example, the widening of junctions - which encourage the idea that we are still trying to improve traffic flows; and that will only increase traffic. Without these traffic reduction targets, we will not achieve what we want.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

The Assembly's draft transport strategy scrutiny panel grilled your officers yesterday - Richard Smith and Keith Gardner - for four hours. We heard from them that there will be traffic reduction targets within this strategy when it is finalised. But those targets do not reduce traffic: they will reduce the increase in traffic, so we will still have an increase in traffic into central London, let alone the outer boroughs. This has not been tackled. To accept that the outer boroughs and the centre of London are going to have a continuing increase is not acceptable.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

I have here some feedback from a member of the public on New Year's Eve. It says: "Cancel it. Take the money and convert all London buses to run on methane gas." It sounds quite good to me.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Does the Mayor agree that Members of the Assembly would be better employed using Question Time to be constructive for the benefit of Londoners, rather than to carry on personal vendettas against yourself?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Do you accept, then, Mayor, that you are responsible - this is part of Eric's question, I think - for organising and co-ordinating this event, and that you have failed to do so in a proper and timely fashion?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

It is worth saying that one of the best approaches to a political retreat is to run like hell and cause as much confusion as possible, and I think that Ken has done that fairly well today. In his Mayor's Report to the last meeting, he said clearly: "Unlike last year, transport services will not be running late into the night." In a written reply, he then said: "I have not yet agreed any proposals for public transport times"; and in the minutes of the meeting, in reply to an oral question, he said: "I have made it clear that...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Thanks: I am very grateful for that. This is a serious issue, and if we do not start taking the transport of nuclear waste more seriously, we could end up with a very different type of fireworks display in London. Do you welcome the Assembly's inquiry into this matter?

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

How will flooding, now that it seems a lot more serious than it was six months ago, be taken into account in the strategies, particularly the spatial development strategy and the planning of the Thames Gateway, and also, perhaps, the siting of the new GLA building?

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Part (b) of the question is about the proportion of the households that are currently included in the defence warning system.

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

You say that the system covers all the properties, but does it cover all the people? People have to opt into the scheme as individuals, don't they, according to my information?