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• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Do you know, I am flabbergasted by this, Deputy Mayor. You have just told us that these low-energy bulbs are in fact a transitional thing, because LED bulbs are going to come in which are going to be efficient, but at the same time your publicity has told us that these light bulbs are going to have a very long life. Clearly it is quite pointless that they should have a long life if something more permanent is going to come along. It is a bit like somebody trying to sell me a Betamax video recorder! The whole thing is...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

One final thing on this; I believe the whole thing is completely ludicrous. This refers to DIY Planet Repairs. Whenever we switch on any of the computers in this building a big thing comes up with an exclamation mark saying `DIY Planet Repairs'; utterly meaningless. I can well understand why there is an exclamation mark there; this has cost the Council Tax payers of London more than £1.25 million! Can you point to any `DIY Planet Repair' which the Mayor and this campaign have actually achieved?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Of the 30,000 a year that you are predicting?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Mr Watts, that is not actually true. In the Mayor's press release ' which I suppose in this case is Nicky's press release ' a 63% take-up was predicted, which is four million. Your figure bears no relationship to the press release and the fact that you only made available this tiny number of light bulbs suggests that there was never any truth in the matter at all.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

It's very interested to hear you say that all of this is supposed to encourage people to take up these things. The total number of people who have actually taken up the insulation grants so far is barely 3,000 homes of the 30,000. The thing you principally have been trumpeting to make Londoners aware of how they can cut carbon issues has related to the exchange of light bulbs. Now the Mayor in his press release predicted that there was going to be a 60% take up of London's population of that; that is around four million people. I wonder...

• Reference: 2001/0216-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

The public sessions of the LDA board concentrate mainly upon incidental discussions about strategies of the LDA and other GLA family members. With the LDA responsible for spending over a quarter of a billion pounds of public money why is it that the Board meets mainly in private? What do you have to hide? .

• Reference: 2001/0223-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

What action is being undertaken to boost South London's drifting economy? .

• Reference: 2001/0226-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

Is London First Centre the right organisation to conduct London's inward investment programme? .

• Reference: 2001/0228-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

The CBI has suggested in a recent report that RDA's lack focus; have little influence over business and are subject to too much meddling from Whitehall. With which of these conclusions do you agree? .

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001