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

That sounds like you are not planning to borrow anything, but you have told us that you are. How much are you working on when you put the figures together? How much are you planning to borrow?

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

So it is open-ended commitment?

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

What about the station modernisation and refurbishment programme? That has already been delayed by the Metronet episode. Is that going to be put back further as a result of focusing on Crossrail?

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

It was suggested by city experts yesterday that you might be able to get a fixed rate deal over 30 years so you know exactly what interest rate you are working with, rather than there being this uncertainty that seemed to be around yesterday afternoon. Is that something you have considered?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Mr Mayor, are you satisfied and happy that this design is buildable? Zaha Hadid has produced these wonderful looking things but she has only had one building actually built and that was in the States. I am concerned that it might look wonderful on paper but is it practical to build it?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

I am interested in that but my concern is this: I very much agreed with your comments earlier on about the deficient culture in London Underground which arose from a lack of competition and your point about wanting to create contracts in that context that the big civil engineering firms will want to bid for. I think you are right. We are in a situation with the Aquatics Centre, which is after all the first major bit to get to an advanced design stage, where there is no competition because, by the look of it, the big civil engineering firms...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

On the other hand you are left with a strong bidder, as you put it, which includes an element which you have been massively critical of in the past. None of us want the same scenario where we have a contractor appointed and then we have a guerrilla warfare of rubbishing them either from your office or from anywhere else for their performance. Is there not a concern that if you get somebody there who appears on the surface to be all right but it starts to unravel we will have no alternative; it is a time constrained contract and...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

When you think that within that mile radius the residents of Hackney, the neighbouring borough, are affected equally as badly as Islington, do you think it is appropriate that Hackney is left out of the discussions? Why is it that a big corporation like this should only deal with the planning authority? That is totally unfair to the rest of the people within the mile radius who are experiencing the same as those within the planning authority.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Would you agree that an incoming alternative Mayor who wanted to change these targets would have to reopen the London Plan and set new targets and justify in front of an inspector in public examination why the needs of Londoners had changed and were no longer requiring a 50% target for affordable housing?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

I had two questions on this. Would you agree - and I think you have sort of confirmed this - that the position we are in is that there has been a very extensive consultation on the Mayor's London Plan, which was adopted some time ago? During that consultation people had an opportunity to attack and shoot down these targets, and they were affirmed by an independent inspector to the Government who again confirmed that this was a reasonable set of targets. Would you confirm also that we are heading into a period with the consultation on the Housing Strategy...