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  • Land and property taxes

    • Reference: 2013/0012-1
    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 05 June 2013
    Given the windfall gains that land and property owners benefit from when transport infrastructure is built, could a tax on those gains help pay for the infrastructure?

  • Guest's opening statement

    • Reference: 2013/0013-1
    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 05 June 2013
    Darren Johnson (Chair): We then move to item 4, which is the question and answer session on the London Finance Commission (LFC) and we welcome Professor Tony Travers, the Chair of that Commission, to answer questions. Each group has a lead-off question, but we will begin with a brief opening statement from Professor Travers.

  • Balance of Taxation

    • Reference: 2012/0218-1
    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2012
    Should we shift the balance of taxation in London from income to wealth, for example with a land value tax?

  • Climate Change (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    That is going to be true even with the new powers.

  • Climate Change (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    What about enforcement?

  • Climate Change (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2007
    Could I stop you there. I have got some questions and not very much time. Perhaps I can ask all my questions then you can just answer as best you can. The first question is how are you going to enforce all this, because that always seems to be the problem with councils actually being able to enforce codes. My view on all this, about trying to get to Level 3, is that it is just utterly unambitious. If you think that the houses we build now are going to be here for at least 50 years and possibly 100...

  • Sustainable Management System (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    If their input is going to be meaningful, it cannot be after the contracts have been let, and the horse has bolted, as it were. It also cannot just be producing more imaginative, visionary statements that do not translate into practical reality on the ground.

  • Privately funded developments/sustainability

    • Reference: 2005/0275-1
    • Question by: Jenny Jones
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    How will you ensure that those developments being funded by the private sector (if any) will adhere to the sustainability promises made?