• 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?

• 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?