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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?

• Reference: 2008/0004
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Do you think that preventing further airport expansion in London is consistent with promoting economic development?

• Reference: 2007/2657
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Would it be reasonable to assume that if there were to be an annual Mayoral election that Tube Fares would be permanently frozen?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Yes, you are absolutely right. London generates an enormous amount of wealth - according to the London Chamber of Commerce about £13 - £20 billion - which is then taken by the Government and used to subsidise the rest of the country, if not Scotland. We can certainly do with more money. As far as Crossrail is concerned, the Mayor has said that is probably the most important project, even more important than the Olympics. Nevertheless, the Government still found themselves with a shortfall of over £300 million and turned to the City to stump up yet more money in...

• Reference: 2007/0037-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

You published your procurement code earlier this year. Aside from venues what are the main contracts you are letting this year and next?

• Reference: 2007/0041-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

What does London need more: the London Development Agency or Crossrail?

• Reference: 2007/0081-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

What do you expect to be the operational consequences of the new GLA Act?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Well, I would have thought that the purpose of the LDA was to provide London with jobs and economic development. Personally, I do not really see the rationale for spending so much money which could have been directed elsewhere, to jobs for young people, whatever, on the Caribbean Showcase, when the Notting Hill Carnival was going on at the same time. I cannot make that connection, I am afraid. I just think that it is extraordinary that you should spend the money in this way.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

That equates to a very neat and tidy solution. You move the allotment holders off to Marsh Lane for a period of approximately seven years, I understand, and then you move them back to another site approximately close to where they are now. Unfortunately it is not going to work terribly well because it takes over seven years to establish a new allotment site. Frankly, if the plot holder is going to be facing two moves within seven years, a lot of them will simply give up. Perhaps the diehards will carry on, but I do not see that this...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

May I put something to you? Here is a quotation from the Olympics designers, `What makes architecture exciting is the ultimate connection with everyday life, communities, topographies, things that are already there. We talk about growing rather than deploying projects. This comes out of an interest in discovering, experimenting rather than producing or perfecting what we know'. That is Farshad Masali, the Olympic designer. Now a little bit of out of the box thinking could surely do something. What you are proposing is, levelling the land, reducing it by eight metres and building a concrete path, a massive great concrete...