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• Reference: 2008/0196
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

According to his latest Decision List, the Mayor spent £245,000 on the recent 'Light Bulb Amnesty' (£118,000 by the GLA and £127,000 by TfL). How much money was spent on marketing and publicity, and how much was spent on the light bulbs themselves?

• Reference: 2008/0198
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

How many traditional light bulbs were exchanged in the 'Light Bulb Amnesty', and how were these disposed of?

• Reference: 2007/0261-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Large parts of my constituency have no tube access and thus my constituents who commute are almost completely reliant on train travel. Does the Commissioner believe that South-West London is getting a fair deal on public transport and is Transport for London doing enough to help my constituents?

• Reference: 2006/1772
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

In your Draft Alterations to the London Plan, the sub regions are heavily reliant upon new and upgraded transport links, can you please state how you expect the sub-regions to cope with the annual increase in housing/population when transport links such as Crossrail 1, the East London Line extension and upgrades to the underground will not be completed for a few years to come?

• Reference: 2006/0115-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Can you clarify the precise remits of the ODA and LDA?

• Reference: 2004/1601
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Following on from question number 1393/2004, should not the priority be to ensure adequate schooling is provided locally before embarking on social engineering?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

I was simply going to ask you about your track record of delivering on time and on budget. You make great play - and, indeed, you have already made great play - over the wonderful contractors that you are going to get in, who are going to deliver on time and on budget. I would like to learn from you what guarantees there are going to be from these contractors. Are you absolutely certain that they are not going to be contractors who perhaps will go belly up, so that we will have to pick up the tab? I wonder...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

World class contractors have gone bust. Londoners will expect there to be bonds equivalent to the total bill that we are going to be expected to pay. I would, however, like to ask you some questions about this total bill. Today you have told us that you expect Band D London ratepayers to pay for 10 years at £20 a head, plus another two years at a further £20 per head. What makes you think that is going to be the end of the bill, given, as Angie Bray has already said, that we as Londoners are going to have...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Well, let us talk about Olympic grandstands, Mr Chairman.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

These Games uniquely seem to be public sector Games. How do you account for the fact that the only financially successful Games were run by the private sector? Also, given that the principal venues from the Games are on the edge of the city, why is the city not stumping up to pay for these Games?