• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

So how do you calculate that 53p figure? How do you get to that?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Council Tax payers always notice the increase when you take something over, Mr Mayor; it is a fact of history! Isn't it strange that you mentioned travel cards almost as a postscript to this great triumphal vision that you have and yet a very large number of people use travel cards in London; they are going to have an increase, and is it not misleading for you to trumpet this as some sort of great achievement and great benefit for passengers when many of them, particularly regular commuters and people from outer London, will not benefit at all?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Mr Pope did raise with you another point before which you did not answer; that was around the interesting pattern that has developed here of three years of huge fare rises and one year of reductions or freezes which also seems to coincide with the year of the election as well. Is that a coincidence or is it a cynical election stunt?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

I have a judgment here from the Advertising Standards Authority which says that a complaint against an advert you put out recently about the freeze in bus fares was upheld because it breached their clauses on, 'substantiation and on truthfulness'. That seems to be an official recognition that you misled the public as opposed to an opinion.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

They could also perhaps cancel sending empty planes across the Atlantic to America which I saw reported in the paper today, or indeed empty planes down to Cardiff just to maintain slots, which would help that congestion as well. Mr Mayor, what confidence can we have in this consultation and its outcome when we get the clear impression of virtual collusion between the Department for Transport and BAA?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

One would hope that that is going to be the outcome. My constituency and the neighbouring constituencies directly affected are very conscious of the impact that a third runway would have upon the local environment. A third runway would also impact on the rest of London with approach routes, departure routes and the whole lot of it. Would you join your resources and abilities with the 2M Group in getting London to understand what the overall impact of the third runway will be?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Right, so this is something that is absolutely in the lap of Greenwich Council and nothing to do with you? You have washed your hands of it?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

There would not be a link then with the zone in the centre? I do not mean a physical link.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

The last time we discussed this you were very keen to point out that it was a Greenwich Council initiative rather than something involving TfL. Some of the work that Greenwich Council did on their original consultation was asking people if they would consider a system where paying to enter Greenwich would also count towards paying to enter the central Congestion Charge zone as well, implying some amount of joint working between Transport for London and Greenwich. Is that still something that is on the drawing board?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Not with the drilling down into these projects; that is just an overall process, we checked that. This is about the specific projects. There is no oversight, there are no proper outputs worked out; the thing is a bit of a shambles. Somebody has to do this. We should not be doing it. Now you are criticising us for trying to put it right.