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• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 10 February 2016

Stephen Knight AM: Eddie [Sir Edward Lister], you have just said that you do not think that these changes will lead to an increase in the number of cars in outer London. Yet we are told that it will lead to a decrease in air quality and an increase in pollution. On one hand we are being told there will be an impact in terms of providing more car parking spaces leading to more cars, but you are just telling us that it will not. Which is the formal position of the GLA on this?

• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 06 February 2015

Stephen Knight AM: We have already heard a little bit about the issues of housing supply and the deficiencies in the Plan and so I will not repeat some of what has been said. However, it is clear that the inspector was willing to sign off this plan really only on the basis that there would be a further review to address the issues before 2016. I noticed in the response that the Mayor has made to the inspector - or it may have been to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) - that a review is already...