• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

One final thing on this; I believe the whole thing is completely ludicrous. This refers to DIY Planet Repairs. Whenever we switch on any of the computers in this building a big thing comes up with an exclamation mark saying `DIY Planet Repairs'; utterly meaningless. I can well understand why there is an exclamation mark there; this has cost the Council Tax payers of London more than £1.25 million! Can you point to any `DIY Planet Repair' which the Mayor and this campaign have actually achieved?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Do you know, I am flabbergasted by this, Deputy Mayor. You have just told us that these low-energy bulbs are in fact a transitional thing, because LED bulbs are going to come in which are going to be efficient, but at the same time your publicity has told us that these light bulbs are going to have a very long life. Clearly it is quite pointless that they should have a long life if something more permanent is going to come along. It is a bit like somebody trying to sell me a Betamax video recorder! The whole thing is...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Do you not find that they are absolutely grotesque to look at? I am a great one for doing what can be done but I also believe that the best way to encourage people to do the right thing is to make it possible for them to do the right thing. Is it not going to be absolutely vital that we get these light bulbs designed in a way that is acceptable to people because the light is appalling and they look absolutely grotesque?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

You think that this will be replicated with India?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

You are saying that each job would have an economic value of £115,400. That is almost what you are paid if I might put it that way. That is a phenomenal figure considering that the average wage is round about £35,000, which is a great deal less than that. Are you seriously saying that these are jobs in the private sector that add an economic value according to that figure?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

I find it extraordinary that this figure could be quoted. You went on record as saying that your trip to India and opening the offices in India would result in thousands of jobs coming to London.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

What I am saying, Mr Mayor, is do not set your face against expansion at this stage. There are loads of things to be discussed, but to simply come out against City Airport and against expansion of Heathrow is really boxing yourself into a corner which will be detrimental to this city in the long run. You have just, with gay abandon, opened offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Mumbai, Delhi and Caracas. All the thousands of jobs that you expect to come to London from those places, those people are not going to walk, cycle or swim here, they are all...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

You are against the expansion of London City Airport and when Crossrail is up and running you have said that you would like those people who use City Airport to take Crossrail to Heathrow. Yet you are against the expansion of Heathrow, which is already at full capacity. There seems, therefore, to be a lack of logic in your position. There are still going to be people - business travellers mainly - who want to use City Airport; it is very successful. Your strategy seems to be one to stifle growth, which is necessary, as you have said yourself, for...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

The problem with that one, Mr Mayor, is that going to Paris or Brussels, you can fly there for £50, and if you take Eurostar it costs you over double that to go just one way.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

If I might say so, Mr Mayor, that is a typical 'New Labour' attitude: legislate and tax.