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• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

I have two issues in mind. The first is with street signage on public transport. As a tourist at Athens and at Beijing, I found that very useful in my experience of those cities. I am just wondering whether any thought has been put into that in the London context over and above what the ambassadors will be doing on the street level.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Just coming back to the issue of the figures for housing, I think it would have been useful to have had someone from the Housing Corporation explain those figures because I have had difficulties getting some idea of what their methodology is on that front and it will undoubtedly become an annual political football. Coming to what I wanted to raise with Neale: the unimplemented planning permissions. Where do you think the explanation lies for that? Is it the five year limit on planning permissions? Is there not the building capacity to build them out? It would be useful, given...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Neale, you missed out housing cooperatives. They are based on mutuality. They are an obvious model for intermediate housing, particular for young people.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Just one more point: the Tenant Management Organisation (TMOs). The Mayor will have responsibility for the Decent Homes programmes now, I understand. Presumably he will be keener on TMOs than going through local authorities, because of their involvement in the management. As Val said, the issue of quality of service is as important as the quantity of housing available.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Just going back to this question of different kinds of housing, what place will housing co-operatives, tenant management organisations and Black and Minority Ethnic Registered Social Landlords have in the Mayor's overall strategy?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I wondered if you thought it good for the health of London that the National Health Service in London in a letter to us reckons the cost of the congestion charge to them is going to be somewhere near £20 million. Is that good for the health of London?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I think that actually Londoners will be interested to hear that £20 million of this so-called money that is coming towards the health of London is going straight into the Mayor's pocket. I'm not certain that's where it should be aiming. It's meant to be aiming for front-line services, I would have thought. What about the health of people living in central London, given that we've already heard from nurses that if they don't get exemptions to bring their own cars to work when they're on night shift, they're going to be applying for transfer out of the central zone...