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• Reference: 2008/0017-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

How effective have your safer transport initiatives been at reducing crime and anti-social behaviour on public transport?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

Some police officers within the service are definitely in danger of losing the roles that they do now. They are members of the Metropolitan Police Trafficking Unit whose funding has been stopped by the Home Office; some £2.3 million. We have a motion on the agenda later today asking for support for that unit and I believe it will get cross-party support. Will you, Mr Mayor, make sure the money is available in the budget to carry on the unit's good work? It is £2.3 million, which is not a great amount when you consider the overall budget of the...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

Can I welcome the decision to set up an urgent review of what has happened so far, to report back within the next couple of weeks? Can I invite the Commissioner to share the terms of reference of that review with us?

• Reference: 2001/0065-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do you support the Mayor's attitude to tree planting as set out in his draft bio-diversity strategy? .

• Reference: 2001/0066-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Many of London's brownfield sites are also important habitats and therefore a land-use choice will have to be made. Which should have priority, homes for people or sanctuaries for nature? .

• Reference: 2001/0067-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Allotments are a very valuable community resource in London, but are often treated as `cinderella spaces' by local authorities and sold off to make room for new developments. Do you share this opinion and does your plan for London seek to challenge this and improve allotment provision? .

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I take your point about post war development but I also bear in mind the fact that no architect has ever said that the development they built was quantity led rather than quality led. Every development that has ever been built we have been told is beautiful in its time. The problem is it does not look so fashionable 30 years later. A lot of our densely populated areas are not pleasant to live in. How do you feel we can mitigate overcrowding in a poor environment with green space, particularly given the Mayor's demands that we also produce a...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Obviously you seem hopeful that your contract will be extended beyond the initial year and into the future to work with us. If that is the case will you be happy to work in the new GLA headquarters with the rest of us and what do you think the advantages are that we can look forward to from working in a building that is as transparent and functional as the table we are sitting at this morning?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Can you tell us what features you think the new City Hall for the Mayor and London Authority should embody and how you would have designed it if it had been your task?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

So in a political headquarters should there be more open plan or more quiet spaces?