• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Are you not actually turning into a Liberal Democrat on this matter! In the sense that on 24 February you told Andrew Marr that you did not support a tall building in Ealing but a letter from the GLA on the following day that you, 'Accepted that the site was an acceptable location for a tall building as proposed by the applicant'. This is you telling one story one day and another story the other day, just like they do.

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

I read that there was a local authority going to take over the post offices that were mooted for closure in their patch. Is it Essex? That is worthwhile looking at to see what in fact the arrangements would be and what the legality is.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

It certainly comes as a shock that 169 branches are going to be closed. I am not asking you to take those over but is it possible for your staff, using demographic data, to do your own equalities impact in order to show the impact this will have on poorer people?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Are you aware that, worse than this, at least one main post office is effectively closed at the moment at least for the business of renewing Freedom Passes and that is the main post office at Enfield? It has told people to come back next Monday because TfL has not sent them the renewal forms or the Freedom Pass stickers.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Will you ensure that other post offices are not short changed in that way?

• 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...