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• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

One of the reasons, Mayor, why I think my colleagues on the left are confused ' and there are many but this is on this particular issue is, does the analysis on this spreadsheet include figures for land values where the use of the land can be changed? There are some situations over there where I remember that if the use were to be changed, the value could be increased up to five fold. Does this analysis include that figure?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Where does that anything between 6% to 17% come into that, because this must automatically increase the value of at least a sizeable percentage of that land?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

In terms of destinations, for Heathrow we are down in 10 to 15 years by 15%, 20%. The major trade unions and the major business organisations are all saying that Heathrow is effectively winding down against its competitors: Frankfurt is going to open a new runway; Munich has now overtaken Heathrow. What do you say to people like the unions and the employers who are united in believing that Heathrow is winding down?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Which is why we need the expansion as well. Has any money been paid by the GLA to anti-expansion groups over the years, to groups who oppose expansion at Heathrow?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Mayor, the problem here, as the unions and business say, is that at a crucial stage Heathrow will lose its role as a premier hub, particularly if there are threats from another major party to do something bizarre like wind it down and threaten all the jobs in the area.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

You do not say that it is declining relatively to Frankfurt, Munich, Amsterdam and Paris? Everybody else does; all the experts do.

• Reference: 2008/0298
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

In the past you have made an issue of the huge difference between what London pays in tax to the government and what it gets back, estimated at around £20 billion by the London Chamber of Commerce. However you have failed to pursue the issue with central government, and in recent years you have ignored it altogether. Do you plan to mention it in your re-election campaign?

• Reference: 2008/0302
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

Does the Mayor support the government's refusal to pay the independently assessed police pay increase in full?

• Reference: 2008/0303
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

Can the Mayor please list the embassies which have in the last six months joined the list of those refusing to pay the congestion charge?

• Reference: 2008/0304
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

You have often commented that EU rules, or interpretations of them, are damaging to the public perceptions of the EU. Would you join One London in calling upon Hackney Council to cease its counterproductive case to criminalise Mrs Janet Devers for selling fruit and vegetables by the pound, relying upon an interpretation of EU law. The EU Commission has recently made clear that it does not believe that use of imperial scales is illegal under EU law.