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• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

I do not need to do the research but what we are saying is you have said to us that during your Budget calculations you have done all these calculations and you have it on a spreadsheet. All we want is that spreadsheet please. When can we have it?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

So this spreadsheet you have done and which you have on your computer, or your secretary does; can we have it please today?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Mr Mayor, Andrew Travers [Group Director, Risk and Resources, London Development Agency], on behalf of the London Development Agency (LDA), came to the Assembly's Budget Committee and very helpfully produced the spreadsheet that he has put to you as the London Development Agency's budget, very simply. That produces land sales of just over £800 million and the sales continuing on for some 25 years. Now that is a very simple spreadsheet with calculations in it. You have said to this Assembly, 'I've listened to that. Those are cautionary figures. I've used different ones'. All we want is your calculations to...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

There does seem to be progress therefore of a sort on making life easier for Londoners to pay the Charge which is certainly to be welcomed. I am very surprised that you say these two technologies are not quite compatible. You have automatic number plate recognition which is already working. You have your Oyster card which is already working. I would have thought that it would be a fairly simple matter as soon as the camera picks up the number plate to identify the driver and dock it from his Oyster card. That seems to me to be a very...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Surely the central issue here is that the police should be able to exercise possibly more frequent stops and more frequent searches in order to apprehend such criminal activity?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

If someone has been stopped by a police officer and searched and answered detailed questions etc. do you think they are ever going to be satisfied about that being conducted in that way?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

In fact, filling out these forms, if they do not find anything, is a complete waste of time?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

When would you expect a police officer to exercise those powers of stop and search?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

So you are happy to see the scrapping of these unnecessary proposals?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Right, so you are making the view, quite reasonably, that it is a matter of judgement?