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• Reference: 2007/0267-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

How much has been spent on the proposed scheme which has now been abandoned?

• Reference: 2007/0271-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

How much is it costing to set up the Low Emission Zone and what are the estimated annual running costs?

• Reference: 2007/0272-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Are you satisfied with TfL's handling of Freedom of Information matters? Correspondence between my constituent and TfL (TFL reference CCFOI 1189) about public opinion surveys (regarding Congestion Charging and Greenwich) appears to show a very slow process.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Absolutely, so it is going to go ahead? This idea that it had been abandoned is not true?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Mr Higgins, you just mentioned the site. You said it was 'highly contaminated'. Those were your words. Now, in marked contrast to your brochure of photographs here, I have got some photographs which actually show the contractors at work. They are digging up, if that is the right phrase, a whole lot of dust which is blowing over the surrounding countryside and the surrounding residential areas. If that site is highly contaminated, don't you think that enormous efforts should be made to damp down the dust and make sure that the dust does not go onto surrounding areas?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Are you aware that there is a suspicion that there might be radioactive waste on the site? There were two instances I have come across. One was dumped in 1959 and another was dumped in 1953 and in both instances they say that the waste was possibly radioactive.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I attended the meeting in Hackney Wick about a couple of weeks ago when people were actually complaining about the dust that was flying around, particularly over the Clays Lane Estate and in that general area. People actually said, 'Having inhaled this dust I felt a real sore throat and burning eyes and burning lips,' and people were coming up to me after the meeting saying, 'Can you do anything about this?' I felt that there was a real concern. Now I know that there has been quite a lot of contamination on that site. I have documents here which...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Alright, and your contractors, those people who are actually working on the site, driving these vehicles and what have you, are they properly protected, using properly protective clothing and all the rest?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Alright, are you aware that the River Lee has been tested for radioactivity and in fact I have a Capita Symonds document here which says, `That the levels were slightly higher than expected, not high enough to cause great concern,' and identifies, `Elevated levels of radioactivity above levels considered to be natural background level for the area'.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

You mentioned in the first part of your answer to Darren [Johnson] that the PPP was commercially advantageous to Metronet. If that is an unfair contract, does that not put TfL in a powerful position to renegotiate the contract?