• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I am very glad of your support and I think the Mayor's voice is very important in this sort of thing. One of the issues that I think is how on earth did they make their decisions in London as to which post office would close? Did they just look at a map and one mile as the crow flies? Roger [Evans], my colleague, reiterated last time that there was one of his closures and they had to go across a major road and underneath a tunnel. I think that must be one of the things that we should look...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I wonder why it is taking you so long to get your legal advice? There is a little suspicion about your press release about what you are going to do that somehow we will not get this legal advice in time.

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Mr Mayor, what requests have you made to TfL about expanding the congestion charge to other areas of London?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

The point is it is mostly Conservative authorities that have been charging these horrendous amounts on parking and they are sitting on those cash reserves as well.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

You see; here we go. You always try to lump everything into the most obvious hate icons but in fact I would like to bring your attention to one particular family who have been in touch with me and I would like to demonstrate to you that there are consequences, possibly unintended, for hardworking, decent families with four children or three children and one on the way that I do not think you thought through properly. The issue is this; a family who live in Battersea take their two older children to school across the bridge every day so they...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Final question from the excellent article in the business section of The Independent by Stephen King; he asked what you say to somebody who does want to be a good non-polluting type person but does not want to pay your congestion charge who has sold her small car and bought a G-Wiz electric vehicle and then along you come tweaking and changing all the criteria and the goal posts and everything else again and why did she bother because she is stuck with her Band A or Band B car? She could still have been treated by you as a...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Just as a follow up, Mr Mayor, what proposals do you have for dealing with problems of congestion in other parts of London?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I think you are also suggesting that they change a school which their children have clearly been at for some time now and I do not think that changing the education issue is necessarily the way round it. What we have here is an inflexible attitude which scoops everybody up. You love to hide behind the Lamborghinis and the great big Chelsea tractors but what you are failing to acknowledge is that for a lot of decent people who have large cars with large families you are penalising hardworking families just for the sake of a bit of flag waving.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

The final quote I will tell you, 'We are increasingly feeling picked on for the 'crime' of being a nuclear family with children'. That is their view of how you treat them. Let me just ask you other question which I think is another interesting way that you have arrived at this one size fits all and is really affecting too many people. Band G cars before 2000, some of them can prove to have the emissions that would get them under the wire as far as your £25 or £8 charge is concerned but you have scooped them up...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I wanted to raise, Ken, one element that Angie has not brought up is the parking charges that car owners have to incur when travelling through central London. How do your charges on congestion charging compare against parking charges in central London?