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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I suspect you may not be able to answer this question but I think I should ask it, has there been an occasion when BAA or another airport authority has said, `You are over-egging the pudding, you are providing us with an excessive level of protection given the risks that we perceive that we have'?

• Reference: 2006/0287-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

As London City Airport is not designated for policing (unlike Heathrow Airport), how will you recover policing costs from the owners?

• Reference: 2006/0288-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I understand that there is a proposal that 375 Police Community Support Officers are deployed to work alongside existing Safer Neighbourhoods Teams in a joint initiative, with shared costs between Transport for London and the Metropolitan Police. These Transport Safer Neighbourhoods Teams will work to similar principles and methodology as the existing 630 Safer Neighbourhoods teams across London except they will focus on transport links and communities as opposed to local residents. What would be the benefits of this?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

I think this is a fantastically important matter, and I suppose the problem I have with Dee Doocey's question is that it's very easy to try to put a number on this and say that £4 billion will solve the problem. I think we all know that out there there's a scepticism in the wider public that we are spending more on public services. I'd like more to be spent on my constituency in East London. People are asking whether we are getting sufficient value out of it, whether our services are sufficiently functional and so on, so clearly, there...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

I would like to take a slightly less negative approach than the UK Independence Party (UKIP) on this issue. The ability of EU funds to transform other areas of Europe where there is experience of poverty has been quite significant, and, given that there are areas of considerable poverty within London, and you may not be able to answer this, but can you think of examples of good practice elsewhere and has, for example, the Child Poverty Action Group, looked at examples of good practice in other European states which could be echoed and mirrored and copied and stolen to...