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  • Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    I appreciate that the widely used definition of the poverty line is 60% of the median income. How was that originally arrived at, and is that an absolutely fixed definition?

  • Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [15]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    No, no, indeed, because I think that is an important point, because I think that in the mindset of the public it is confusing when you hear that x percent of people in London are technically living at or below the poverty line. I wondered if that definition would still be applicable if the median income rose considerably in London. One might feel that the definition was less, then, to do with poverty. I suppose I am asking you: are we talking about relative poverty as opposed to absolute poverty?

  • Role of Education, Training & Employment in Lifting People out of Poverty (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    One of the things that you have not really talked about in your answers is that while we bandy around this expression, `learning and skills', nobody actually defines precisely what skills are actually going to do the trick, and help deliver some of the solutions. Am I right in thinking that one of the skills that we need to put much more focus on, if we are going to get more people into work and skilled up, is language in this city of ours. The question - really for Mr Faulkner - is whether he finds that languages do provide...

  • Silverlink Metro Services (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    Therefore you are actually putting it up to help fill a deficit. ... To balance the books. As the penalty revenue falls you are predicting a deficit.

  • Silverlink Metro Services (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    Staying on the subject of revenue from Congestion Charging - is not the problem for TfL that they foresee a huge drop in the amount of revenue from Congestion Charging as people learn to manoeuvre themselves through the rather Byzantine payment system, whereby you will be getting less penalty money? Is not the whole point of jacking it up from £5 to £8 actually to make a start on filling the deficit that TfL has actually prophesied itself?

  • Silverlink Metro Services (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    What about the public inquiry the ALG has called for, a cross-party call to you?

  • Silverlink Metro Services (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    Can I ask about one other aspect? Recently, there was a call from the Association of London Government (ALG), a cross-party call, for a pause in this whole rolling out of the Congestion Charge westwards, and to allow for a public inquiry to take place, not least because we understand, and you yourself went on record to say that some very interesting trial work was being done on tag and beacon. Would it not be better to pause before you put all these cameras in and have a public inquiry to look at where we are on this whole issue?

  • TfL website - links to Congestion Charge site

    • Reference: 2005/0092-1
    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    On the Transport for London website, there is no obvious link to information on the Congestion Charge. The information can only be accessed by clicking the 'Travel Information' link, and then Congestion Charging appears in the sub-menu. Given the importance of this to so many people, would it not be better to have a more immediately visible direct link on the Transport for London Home Page, and can the Mayor put pressure on TfL to rectify this?

  • No. 24 Bus route

    • Reference: 2005/0093-1
    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    The No. 24 buses are regularly arriving at Pimlico in pairs, and also leaving the Grosvenor Road terminal at very irregular intervals, often only a minute or two apart, followed by a long gap. The reason for this, as explained by a driver, is that there is no control to ensure a regular service, and drivers arriving late at the terminal start the return journey at once to try to stick to the schedule, even if another bus has just left or is about to depart. This is obviously not meeting the Mayor's objective of a quality service. Can anything...

  • ALG Public Enquiry

    • Reference: 2005/0094-1
    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    What response has Mr Kiley got to the ALG cross party call for a public enquiry into the extension of the Congestion Charge?