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• Reference: 2005/2342
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Since TfL London Buses appear to be 'strapped for cash' when communities request new bus routes or modifications to existing routes, will you consider doubling the current funding available to them for trialling new or modified bus routes?

• Reference: 2005/2351
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

How do you reconcile the recently introduced discount for monthly and annual congestion charges with your view that TfL is unlikely to offer a discount for the purchase of set number of days' congestion charge which drivers who live in the Congestion Charge zone could then 'use up' at their own convenience? Do we not want to encourage such forethought - or are you happier to collect the fines when honest motorists forget to pay the charge?

• Reference: 2005/2324
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Now that up to 5,000 London pubs, bars and clubs are serving alcohol for longer under the Government's new licensing laws and given that 10,000 minicab drivers have left the industry since 2001, is there now a danger that there will be insufficient licensed minicabs in the early hours, and that the demand will be met by illegal touts?

• Reference: 2005/2325
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Do you share the concern of the Watermen and Lightermen's Practitioners that the proposals that were put forward in the consultation carried out by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency earlier this year, lower the standards required for Thames skippers to qualify for a licence?

• Reference: 2005/2328
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Please list the key health promotion initiatives undertaken by the GLA in 2005/06 and the costs of each initiative.

• Reference: 2005/2338
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

What steps will you now take to enhance and develop the training courses provided both for entrant and serving bus drivers in order to achieve significant and noticeable improvements in the standard of customer service and driving offered to passengers on London's buses? Will you order an increase in "mystery shoppers" employed by TfL to monitor the behaviour of individual bus drivers?

• Reference: 2005/2340
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Do you support the decision to impose above-inflation fare rises for five years on the Integrated Kent Franchise which includes some of the busiest commuter routes in London? In view of the jump in Go-Ahead's share prices after they won the Government contract to run the Integrated Kent Franchise, will you be pressing the new franchisee more strongly to conclude a favourable deal on introducing Oyster pre-pay on their rail routes?

• Reference: 2005/2346
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Please supply a briefing detailing the current management structure of London Underground, setting out the number of posts at each salary level.

• Reference: 2005/2347
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Please supply a briefing detailing the current management structure of TfL London Buses, setting out the number of posts at each salary level.

• Reference: 2005/2348
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Please supply a briefing detailing the current management structure of TfL Docklands Light Railway, setting out the number of posts at each salary level.