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• Reference: 2008/0533
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

The Mayor is on record as saying that London council taxpayers are close to breaking point. Does he agree with One London that after eight years of inflation-busting rises, it is now time to reduce the burden of GLA council tax on Londoners over the next four years?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Congratulations. I was under the impression that the Metropolitan Police Service has responded to you and said that it is not going to investigate it.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Unless I know something that nobody else seems to know. What I was really asking for was the letter you had sent to the Metropolitan Police Service, because the Metropolitan Police Service has responded to your letter saying that because you do not make any criminal allegations they are not going to investigate it.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

One of the reasons, Mayor, why I think my colleagues on the left are confused ' and there are many but this is on this particular issue is, does the analysis on this spreadsheet include figures for land values where the use of the land can be changed? There are some situations over there where I remember that if the use were to be changed, the value could be increased up to five fold. Does this analysis include that figure?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Where does that anything between 6% to 17% come into that, because this must automatically increase the value of at least a sizeable percentage of that land?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

In terms of destinations, for Heathrow we are down in 10 to 15 years by 15%, 20%. The major trade unions and the major business organisations are all saying that Heathrow is effectively winding down against its competitors: Frankfurt is going to open a new runway; Munich has now overtaken Heathrow. What do you say to people like the unions and the employers who are united in believing that Heathrow is winding down?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Which is why we need the expansion as well. Has any money been paid by the GLA to anti-expansion groups over the years, to groups who oppose expansion at Heathrow?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Mayor, the problem here, as the unions and business say, is that at a crucial stage Heathrow will lose its role as a premier hub, particularly if there are threats from another major party to do something bizarre like wind it down and threaten all the jobs in the area.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

You do not say that it is declining relatively to Frankfurt, Munich, Amsterdam and Paris? Everybody else does; all the experts do.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

I do not believe the data will demonstrate how many Londoners are losing out specifically as opposed to UK citizens in general. You may remember I have questioned you before on the fact that there is a great deficit in Londoners actually getting employment. The LSC (Learning and Skills Council) when it came in to have lunch with us did admit that there was something like a 39% unemployment rate in London. You then said, when I questioned you about that, that that counts mothers at home with babies. I think that is the first time any government has wanted...