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• Reference: 2007/2940
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

MA3247 approved 'the hiring of an independent PR company to ensure that the key messages from the [London Child Poverty] Commission's final report receive significant publicity and public debate.' Considering central government's focus on the issue of child poverty, the huge amount of media coverage on the subject and the commitment of all the main political parties to this cause, what makes you think that the report of the London Child Poverty commission needs the services of a PR company to 'receive significant publicity and public debate'?

• Reference: 2007/3125
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Please can the Mayor update me on progress with the faulty wind turbines removed from the LDA Head Office roof.

• Reference: 2007/3126
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

The amount of spoil generated by the tunnelling for Crossrail is estimated at 8.5 million tonnes. If that goes to landfill, it would cost £250 per tonne, under European Union legislation. How do you intend to dispose of this spoil?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Can I just intervene here, just to be accurate about this. You have been talking about the GLA and the Mayor undertaking an inquiry; I am not disputing what Richard Barnes is saying; indeed there is reference to an inquiry by the LDA. They are parallel perhaps, but separate.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

If I might say so, Mr Mayor, that is a typical 'New Labour' attitude: legislate and tax.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

The problem with that one, Mr Mayor, is that going to Paris or Brussels, you can fly there for £50, and if you take Eurostar it costs you over double that to go just one way.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

You are against the expansion of London City Airport and when Crossrail is up and running you have said that you would like those people who use City Airport to take Crossrail to Heathrow. Yet you are against the expansion of Heathrow, which is already at full capacity. There seems, therefore, to be a lack of logic in your position. There are still going to be people - business travellers mainly - who want to use City Airport; it is very successful. Your strategy seems to be one to stifle growth, which is necessary, as you have said yourself, for...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

What I am saying, Mr Mayor, is do not set your face against expansion at this stage. There are loads of things to be discussed, but to simply come out against City Airport and against expansion of Heathrow is really boxing yourself into a corner which will be detrimental to this city in the long run. You have just, with gay abandon, opened offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Mumbai, Delhi and Caracas. All the thousands of jobs that you expect to come to London from those places, those people are not going to walk, cycle or swim here, they are all...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

I find it extraordinary that this figure could be quoted. You went on record as saying that your trip to India and opening the offices in India would result in thousands of jobs coming to London.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

You are saying that each job would have an economic value of £115,400. That is almost what you are paid if I might put it that way. That is a phenomenal figure considering that the average wage is round about £35,000, which is a great deal less than that. Are you seriously saying that these are jobs in the private sector that add an economic value according to that figure?