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• Reference: 2013/0021-1
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 09 October 2013

In seeking to bear down on fares and help finance new infrastructure projects, please assess the relative importance of bearing down on TfL costs and uncovering fresh revenue streams.

• Reference: 2012/0006-1
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

In electing you Mayor of London, Londoners were endorsing a number of policies that will require Government support. How will you persuade the Government to accept the policies for which Londoners voted?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

This question is about a matter that was not the fault of London Underground, but I would like to hear whether you have received assurances of compensation from Thames Water for flooding the Tube a couple of weeks ago?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Thank you. Perhaps I could just go through one or two of the policies and look at some of the specific policies that were in your manifesto. I guess the one that most Londoners would find most important is that to try to deal and indeed to cut down on the number of strikes that are happening. You and the Commissioner have already talked about the bus strike but, frankly, that is one that I understand was brought about by only a third of the members of the union voting for the strike and taking part in the ballot. We...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 July 2010

Minister, you have talked about devolution to the boroughs as a whole. Recently I read the suggestion by a former Parliamentary colleague, Rob Hayward [former Member of Parliament for Kingswood], that perhaps there are too many London boroughs; currently there are 32, and some of them are rather small. He said that he had been an advisor to the Secretary of State when he was in the Shadow Cabinet. Are you aware that your Department might be looking at reducing the number of London boroughs?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 July 2010

One historically controversial area has been the sale of school playing fields by local authorities for development. What sort of controls are you going to keep over that because the public do have some very strong feelings about it?