• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

The real position is that you may build those homes but there is not going to be any infrastructure for them. You are incredibly optimistic about Crossrail. On the other hand I have never known you not to be optimistic about anything.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Were you consulted about Judith Armitt's departure from the role of Chief Executive of the Gateway?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

I will not comment, Chair, on the future or otherwise of the UDC. That is a matter to be discussed in whatever place. First, Mayor, would you join with me in inviting and welcoming Tony Arbour to come on a visit of the Thames Gateway to see what is happening on the ground there. Contrary to all the doom-laden headlines and the prejudices of people like himself who live in a far flung western fringe of London, there is an awful lot going on in the Gateway, as you have already outlined. Would you join with me in celebrating, for...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Semi-detached homes with garages are not terrible automatically.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

What about the fact that a lot of people in London want family homes with gardens? They do not want all-singing all-dancing bits of urban infrastructure everywhere.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Do you not think you should have a plan B there? It is all very well to tell us that all this infrastructure is going to be put in, but the track record of infrastructure going in in these huge developments, not necessarily matters for which you have responsibility, could well mean that all these affordable houses and other houses are built, but the people are going to be marooned there. They are going to be in places with very poor transport links; they are going to be in places where there are going to be relatively few schools, very...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

I am pleased to hear that you are standing by what you said in the prospectus because the prospectus, as you rightly say, forecasts 100,000 new homes but in July you told the London Assembly that you were only forecasting 40,000 new homes. Which of the two figures is correct?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Daniel Moylan [Chairman, London Councils' Transport & Environment Committee & Deputy Leader, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea] has made it clear that every single new traffic light got the approval of TfL. Would that be correct?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

The congestion levels would suggest that it is not and the fact is that idling cars are causing pollution.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Congestion levels prove that you have not.