• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Are you basing your entire idea of a legal challenge on the length of consultation period or would you also be wanting to look at the actual criteria and how they were applied by the Post Office review?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

[Postwatch] have written to all Members and I assume they have written to you as well. Of course, as you know, they are the consumer council for postal services. Two things worry me intensely about them. One is that they have agreed to this six-week consultation period which I think is a betrayal, frankly, of their role. Secondly, they seem to have admitted surrender before we have had the battle. I quote directly from the letter signed by their Chairman, Roger Darlington, 'We want to be candid with the public and stakeholders and to make clear that the consultation is...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

You are quite right. It strikes me that the lead person behind the City of Westminster challenge did used to run around in a Porsche and I wondered whether there was a connection between the two. The other thing which occurred to me, given this is an emission-based charge, did you ever consider incorporating it within the LEZ (Low Emission Zone) which you have announced recently? At least the benefit there would be London-wide rather than just central London.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

The post office I was demonstrating outside is a profitable post office so when the Post Office says that one of its overriding concerns is to save money it does seem to me that the consultation is rather a sham if some of those post offices are profitable, as the one I was in front of this morning. Have you taken legal advice as yet as to the validity of a judicial review or is that something you will be doing?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

OK, so you don't. He has no green credentials then?

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

Then why suspend him?

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

You suspend someone who has not misconducted himself. Amazing.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Even the free marketeer over there. I just have to say that there is a hole in the consultation period that I identified yesterday when I was talking to local councillor colleagues. I have 15 post offices that are threatened and I think it was only two of those councillors who knew. The Post Office has not written or informed local councillors about what is happening in their patch, which just shows you the level of understanding about consultation that is going on here. I doubt if they have consulted an organisation like the London Older People's Strategy Group, the...

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

What about Lee Jasper's misconduct or not?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

I hope you are getting advice on the substance of it as well because a judicial review could only have the result of extending the consultation period and it is the real result that everybody wants.