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• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Right, but can I just pick up on that?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Right. You say 24 businesses have been settled successfully.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Thank you. Clearly, work is being done, but I read in the Paralympic Games bid document that the catchment area for the Paralympics is 30 million people across much of southern England within a day trip of the Games. Therefore, what is going to be done about helping people with any kind of disability across that catchment area, particularly if they rely on mainline rail services? What plans are in place for that situation?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Will you set them objectives or targets?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Thank you. On getting into London itself and the fact that it is going to be a very broad-based Games, we know that we have real problems in access for people with disabilities to our public buildings. Indeed, a recent statement in Disability Capital states that only 17% of public buildings in London are accessible. What plans are in place for involving disabled people in the cultural Olympiad?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Turning to the bus service, which you state will be fully compliant by 2006; I think you said early 2006 but are the ramps actually working? In fact, my evidence is that in many cases it is not possible for people with a wheelchair to access a bus on a low floor through a ramp, because the ramp is inoperable. Are there any efforts by TfL to get on top of this, such as using a secret-shopper approach?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Can I just put it to you that I do think that you are reneging on your duty as the man who is meant to lead for London's interest. It is absolutely clear that, if there had been a review, it is not a matter of you rolling over. You could have used the opportunity, could you not, to press for some guarantees? You said yourself that you do not think Londoners should pay a penny more than they are already committed to ' the £625 million. The fact is, however, that this Memorandum of Understanding hangs over us like...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Let us stick with the point, shall we?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Personal abuse tends to suggest I am winning the argument, by the way. I was always taught that. I will put it to you one more time: is it not a good opportunity for you to show how you can flex your muscles as Mayor of London, and at the very least press for some kind of guarantee that whatever the overspend is ' and I am hoping it is not going to be great; let us hope it is the most efficiently-delivered bid of all ' that would be fantastic ' but let us also have a belt and...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Why are you not using the review to do that?