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

I am not really interested in your views on education. We are here to talk about the issue of your misused congestion charge which is now scooping up all sorts of people that really are not trying to show off in fancy fast cars; they are decent people who happen to have a family sized car and you are not addressing that.

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

Here is the thing, Mr Livingstone, firstly you are suggesting that they have to go out and buy a brand new family car which is something which they are obviously not going -

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

That is not for us to decide; that is for the parents to decide is it not?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

What I would like to get at is, is your aim to have the greenest Olympic Games ever?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Or is it a bit more than that, a bit more ambitious and do you want a cutting edge sustainable Olympic Games?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

You know this is not going to happen unless, I think, you are a bit tougher. For example, on renewables the Olympics will only meet existing London Plan targets and on energy they will only just be ahead of national standards on energy efficiency. So the targets are not high enough and on some things there are not any targets at all. Can I suggest somewhere where we could very usefully put some targets in which would make it much more cutting edge.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

No, because you can be a bit better than previous Games.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Do you want to hear what they are? For example, there are no energy efficiency targets for temporary venues or temporary parts of permanent venues, so that means most of the seating does not have any sort of targets in it. I am not worried about LOCOG or the ODA delivering on targets; I am sure they will absolutely deliver on targets. What I am worried about is that the targets that they have are just not ambitious enough. Perhaps I could put this forward to you on these venues because that would make a difference?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I am trying to make this into a question! Wouldn't you agree that we have set aside identified sites for waste technologies, that we have a sustainable industries park and we also have a centre for manufacturing excellence and that we are looking hard at trying to ensure that we do have the space for the emerging green technologies both in transport technologies, waste technologies, energy technologies? There are so many new technologies coming along. You are absolutely right to highlight this but I do think actually that we have been very mindful of that so far in the London...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

I am very into Nicky's light bulbs; I think they are glamorous and fantastic and I am sure they look brilliant in her low energy chandeliers at her home! It is not just about jobs in energy; that is the important but if we are looking at green jobs in industry there is recycling, there is food, there is green manufacturing and we are massively lagging behind Europe in terms of our green jobs target.