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• Reference: 2003/0120
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 March 2003

The Mayor has written that he wants to see an end to governnent tax concessions to the aviation industry (worth £8.5 billion in 2000); since according to calculations based on the July 2002 SERAS document and the DoT's price sensitivity test, the end of all concessions would reduce passenger demand in the Southeast to 135 million passengers a year by 2020, which could be met by existing airport capacity for up to 154 million passengers a year, would you accept that the end of tax concessions in the near future would remove the need for new capacity in the Southeast...

• Reference: 2001/0079-1
• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What role will he play in the drawing up and implementation of the Energy Strategy? .

• Reference: 2001/0077-1
• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What role will he play in the drawing up of the Spatial Development Strategy? .

• Reference: 2001/0078-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What possibilities is he considering for pedestrianisation schemes? . (Victor Anderson) In the advice that you give, will you be giving advice about pedestrianisation schemes, because you have spoken in favour of them in the past and they are also referred to in general terms in the document. But there is only one specific scheme that is proposed in the document which is the one at Trafalgar Square. Will you be pressing for others? .

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What advice will you give to the Mayor about the two different views in the proposals document about development of London? One of the views in the document is the emphasis on orbital public transport routes creating a city of interchanges. The other view is that there are four development corridors which link the City of London and central London to existing airports or a possible future airport in North Thames. With these two contrasting views in the same document, what view will you take?

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do you think that the SDS will be able to deliver a better quality design that you have talked about? Because I think that there is a danger that we will have a rhetoric about better quality design but not actually mechanisms for achieving it.