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• 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: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

There does seem to be progress therefore of a sort on making life easier for Londoners to pay the Charge which is certainly to be welcomed. I am very surprised that you say these two technologies are not quite compatible. You have automatic number plate recognition which is already working. You have your Oyster card which is already working. I would have thought that it would be a fairly simple matter as soon as the camera picks up the number plate to identify the driver and dock it from his Oyster card. That seems to me to be a very...

• Reference: 2008/0298
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

In the past you have made an issue of the huge difference between what London pays in tax to the government and what it gets back, estimated at around £20 billion by the London Chamber of Commerce. However you have failed to pursue the issue with central government, and in recent years you have ignored it altogether. Do you plan to mention it in your re-election campaign?

• Reference: 2008/0299
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

At a recent press conference you claimed that 'energy efficient' lightbulbs use 80% less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs. This seems to be based on the long-discredited claim that they give five times more light. What was the claim based on?

• Reference: 2008/0300
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

When stating that you intend to freeze tube fares in real terms in 2009, does this mean you intend to raise tube fares in line with the Retail Price Index or the Consumer Price Index?

• Reference: 2008/0301
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

Why is Scottish & Southern Electricity refusing to re-install the wind turbines on the Palestra building, and will there be any additional costs on top of the original £436,000 to re-install these wind turbines?

• Reference: 2008/0302
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

Does the Mayor support the government's refusal to pay the independently assessed police pay increase in full?

• Reference: 2008/0303
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

Can the Mayor please list the embassies which have in the last six months joined the list of those refusing to pay the congestion charge?

• Reference: 2008/0304
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

You have often commented that EU rules, or interpretations of them, are damaging to the public perceptions of the EU. Would you join One London in calling upon Hackney Council to cease its counterproductive case to criminalise Mrs Janet Devers for selling fruit and vegetables by the pound, relying upon an interpretation of EU law. The EU Commission has recently made clear that it does not believe that use of imperial scales is illegal under EU law.