• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

I do not recall it being conclusive. What I think would be useful is if TfL and the London Borough of Redbridge could get together and agree a protocol for this area, not least because the road on the surface is run by TfL and the ticket hall is run by London Underground so you would think the bit in between the two could be a TfL responsibility.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

That is reassuring to hear and it is yet another problem which we have been bequeathed by Metronet. There are problems with the underpass. Whenever it needs cleaning there is an argument over whose fault it is and whenever redecoration is needed there is an argument over whose responsibility it is and whenever there is flooding there is an argument.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

The deplorable failure is in fact that you have not insisted on applying your 50% right across London. Right across London, you have been willing to lower those targets. In other words you are facing market reality in the sense that imposing a 50% target actually reduces the chance of developers wanting to develop in London. They are going elsewhere. You are killing the goose which lays the golden eggs, aren't you?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Mr Mayor, Andrew Travers [Group Director, Risk and Resources, London Development Agency], on behalf of the London Development Agency (LDA), came to the Assembly's Budget Committee and very helpfully produced the spreadsheet that he has put to you as the London Development Agency's budget, very simply. That produces land sales of just over £800 million and the sales continuing on for some 25 years. Now that is a very simple spreadsheet with calculations in it. You have said to this Assembly, 'I've listened to that. Those are cautionary figures. I've used different ones'. All we want is your calculations to...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

The point I am making is that the amount of housing which is being provided in London relates to the economy, not anything that you are doing. There is no question, however, that in a tightening economy it is becoming much less economic to meet your targets. Developers ' indeed we have had them before the Assembly's Planning Committee ' in effect are saying it is not worth a candle to develop in London because it is so much easier to go elsewhere.

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

So this spreadsheet you have done and which you have on your computer, or your secretary does; can we have it please today?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Neale Coleman, in the comments that you have reported, said that not only were you unlikely to raise the sum of money - ie £1.8 billion which was the original figure you thought you were going to make from land sales - but, because of the provision of affordable housing, it is going to reduce the receipts that you are going to get. How are you going to fund the difference between what you thought you were going to get and the sum that you actually receive?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

I do not need to do the research but what we are saying is you have said to us that during your Budget calculations you have done all these calculations and you have it on a spreadsheet. All we want is that spreadsheet please. When can we have it?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Everyone would welcome that. However, your track record on the provision of affordable housing has lamentably fallen short of your 50% target; in fact last year the percentage of affordable housing that you actually achieved was only 34%. You have had a 50% target in your London Plan more or less from day one. You have been a signal failure at achieving that. What makes you think you are going to achieve it here?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

In doing so, by increasing densities, you are changing the entire character of outer London. It is you who took the view, until the election loomed, that back gardens were brown land development sites and it is you who has encouraged boroughs to build on back land and infill sites. Although Boris [Johnson] may think that Paris has a jolly nice environment I can assure you that outer London, particularly Richmond, Kingston and Hounslow, has an infinitely better environment than the suburbs of Paris.