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• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Then surely you add yet more cars? If you work out even on your own figures, any outcome is going to make no difference to CO2 levels, etc. in London. It is only going to be tiny. The whole life impact is expected to be minimal. You are not really changing the environment; that is grandstanding, surely, on a major scale.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Peter, I can pretty much assure you that no doubt the Dutch Government would do it as a matter of course, having not long been re-elected. If they had a referendum, they would not do it, just like in Edinburgh when it was put to a referendum. In spite of every single body, every single organisation going for it, they voted substantially against. It is the same with many other situations and that will happen more as a result of you bringing in this type of swingeing taxation. That will happen more in places like New York and in California...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

And what referendum did they have?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

If you do believe in this system, what proposals have you made regarding these inconsistencies about the type of car that will qualify or not? Have you made proposals to the Mayor on that to make it fairer?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

These were done through technology in consultation with industry's manufacturers. That is how that process was done. This is not. This is a sudden and swingeing tax to be imposed upon people who have a car, a five year old, possibly petrol-engined Mondeo, which all of a sudden they have to pay £25 for. Can I move to the second half of the question. I have to say I have looked at some of the newspapers in different cities and in different countries and I will just quote you one letter from a newspaper in Manchester: 'Just look what you...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

That is not because of our Congestion Charge; that is what is happening anyway and it has been for some years, before we ever thought of doing this.

• Reference: 2007/2655
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Can you give a guarantee to local residents that the bus garages in Waterden Road in the Olympic Zone will be suitably relocated, with no temporary reduction in local bus services?

• Reference: 2007/2656
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

It is accepted that one of the main reasons for the failure of the Millennium Dome as a visitor attraction was its car exclusion zone. How would the Olympics succeed in making such an exclusion zone work, when the Dome - with better public transport facilities - failed?

• Reference: 2007/2658
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

What is the justification for paying the Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq £4500 for her recent appearance at a GLA event?

• Reference: 2007/2659
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Further to his answer to my question 2212/2007, can the Mayor confirm receipt of the expected first instalment on 11th October 2007 and the amount received?