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• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

I have not got time to get into an argument with you so I would just like to ask you a question if that is all right. I know that sales of social housing have fallen this year and there was actually an increase in the number of social housing, but it is always like a leaky pot, isn't it: as fast as you build the social housing there is the right to buy process, and so you are losing those houses? Doesn't the Mayor have any powers to remove the right to buy on new social building?

• Reference: 2007/0015-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Can you update us on progress towards the Games' environmental commitments?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

One of the methods that you could accommodate this flood risk is through the Green Grid. Now, I am not seeing any movement on this. I am not seeing the finance in place. I am not seeing, in any serious way, that you are actually going to put that in place.

• Reference: 2005/0273-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Non-LOCOG capital investment is estimated at $15.8 bn. Can you provide details of how this figure will be met?

• Reference: 2005/0274-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Can you provide a breakdown of which elements of the development will be funded by the public sector, which will be funded through public/private partnerships and which will be funded solely by the private sector?

• Reference: 2002/0281-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Will the Mayor's Transport Strategy lead to making London a healthier place to live? .

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I will come back to walking and cycling. We all know we had the 50th anniversary of the London smog last week. The fact is that although we don't have smog anymore, we certainly do have a fairly lethal mix of toxins in the air of London, which not only triggers breathing disorders, asthma in children and so on, but also shortens our lives. What do you think in the Transport Strategy is actually going to help the quality of air in London?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

You mentioned earlier the low emission zone. Research suggests that that would have quite an impact on air quality in London. Do you have any further information on that?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I think it's because the land requirements for the Plan and its development are not actually calculated at any stage, and nor is the availability of the amount of brown field sites at the moment. So, we don't actually know what quantity of land the Plan will actually take. Now, there is actually no target in the London Plan -- I'm suggesting there should be a 100% target for all housing to be built on brown field sites. That doesn't exist. There is no target. That means that open land is vulnerable.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Protecting something that's already vulnerable is admirable, but actually preventing open space ever being built on is something else. That is not stated in the Plan. I've got a figure here that 90% of new housing in London is built on brown field sites. That means that 10% isn't. 10% is actually on open space. To me, that's appalling, that we're losing any open space at all. Once you have lost it, it's gone for ever. Do you recognise that figure?