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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: 24 October 2012

Stephen Knight (AM): To pick you up on the point you have just made around the high property values in London, compared, I believe with most other developed countries, we have very few property and wealth taxes in this country; we predominantly focus on income and sales taxes. I just wondered to what extent you think the high cost of housing in London is partly driven by the fact that it is a tax free growth area for people, by which I mean it is a tax free investment and therefore that has partly driven the speculation that has driven...