• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

If you are going to take these contracts on they will need to be undesignated as PPP contracts effectively. How will that work?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

My question on the priority order paper was asking about your reaction to the PPP Arbiter's initial analysis.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Can I inform the Mayor that as a result of putting down this question, Visit London, which is not technically part of our family, has agreed to stop using plastic bags as well.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

I am slightly concerned that TfL is not encouraging boroughs as much as it might because there are boroughs that want this and would like some help and are not really getting it, including Southwark. As part of our budget deal with you next year, there is going to be an item on TfL drawing up a feasibility study to confirm all the finding from the PACTS (Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety) report, to confirm that you save lives, you can remove or not install road humps and that you make cycling and walking safer. We are going to...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Mr Mayor, I am delighted to hear that you accept that road humps in which TfL has pumped millions and millions of pounds of taxpayers' money over the years have not achieved the reduction that they should have done in deaths and injuries. As you will know, the London Borough of Barnet has one of the fastest falling death and injury rates and yet we have removed road humps. I am just amazed that there are still people out there who defend road humps because, as you say, not only do they increase emissions but they are actually dangerous because...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

I totally agree with you on the point about back gardens; certainly we have done some work on that. As Ward Councillors - those of us who are - are always fighting off back garden proposals almost constantly. The other point is about access to public areas, which is a key objective in your Biodiversity Strategy, and you are still way off target in those areas. Are you having discussions with the boroughs that are most adversely affected by this to look at how you start to close the gap?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

As you say, it is one of the key objectives in your Biodiversity Strategy yet nearly one quarter of the built up areas of London still have no easy access to natural green space. You are not making progress on this sufficiently at all. You are really failing in this area.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

I love horses and I have owned horses. I have even owned horseboxes and in fact one of my daughters sometimes lives in a horsebox, so I feel I am qualified to comment on this. I just wanted to ask you if you would like my help in supporting you against exemptions of this kind?

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

For the record, Chair, I do not like horses although I would not want to begrudge people who do like them their pleasure. I was tempted to make a comment about cows and global warming. However, Peter [Hulme Cross] does raise a relevant question for a small but important number of people around London. On a more general question about exemptions from the Low Emission Zone, I am sure all Members are being lobbied about this and Bob Neill has touched on it as well, whether the not-for-profit sector, particularly community transport fleets, could be exempted because of the prohibitive...

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

Why not consider an exemption at weekends as you do with the Congestion Charge?