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• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I think you are diverting the question here. That is what you are very good at, I have to say. Every time we ask for information we are told we cannot have it. We then have to make a Freedom of Information request which takes endless time to do. The supply of information is like getting blood out of a stone, particularly from your office.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Yes, but children do not think about what contribution they are going to give in future years. They are focused on the present, quite rightly. Getting on to a bus does not cost anything, it is free. They get the idea that that is a right, that that is free. It is a very difficult thing to shift later on. It gives them quite the wrong idea. We have seen, where children get on to buses, they behave like children very often and it has an effect on all the other passengers on the bus. There are old people who...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

It is not the right message to give to children that something is free. You do not go into a sweet shop and help yourself to a handful of sweets; you pay for them. Likewise, if you are going to get on a bus and travel from A to B there should be a charge for it, otherwise children get the wrong idea that something is provided free and they can just make hay with it, as many of them appear to do.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

lot of children like to be independent; a lot of them will get on a bicycle and some of them will walk, but where travel is free on a bus they will just jump on a bus.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

You mentioned that a lot of children are living below the poverty line. Undoubtedly this is useful [information] in that context but here you are dabbling in social engineering are you not?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

When you are a child you do not drive, the only option you have is public transport. The idea is that you take the bus.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Do you think that is your function?

• Reference: 2008/0508
• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Please can you provide a detailed explanation for the train and power failure which brought chaos to the Jubilee Line in particular and to the Underground in general on the 6th February? Could you also explain what action is being taken to prevent a repetition?

• Reference: 2008/0509
• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

How many vehicles have been impacted from entering London by the introduction of the LEZ? How many of these are owned by individuals and how many by fleet owners?

• Reference: 2008/0510
• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

You have reported in your budget the potential recruitment of up to 1,000 extra police officers, on the basis of current levels of recruitment and training, when will these police officers actually be actively involved in fighting crime?