• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

to demonstrate the inclusivity of his mayoralty and the sort of mayoralty that you ought to have been running up until now. You ought to have been flying the flag as they do here at Tower Bridge every day to demonstrate that this great city really is united, and this is the only symbol which celebrates both that unity and diversity. I am sorry that it has taken so long for you to see that particular light.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

Will it be flying on the other 364 days in the year, excepting St George's Day?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

I want to move on to something else, but if you are replacing lots of small facilities with one big facility it means people have to travel more. None of us want people to travel more if they do not have to. That is the big problem. I am really pleased the Government is supporting this whole idea because of course Labour is not known for its sporting facilities. We had to wait for Green councillors in Ladywell in Lewisham before we could save the pool there that Labour was going to close. It is clear that this is perhaps...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

My information is that local sports facilities, whether they are pools or playing fields, are reducing. Some of the things you are talking about are these big flagship centres; they are not the local sports facilities that people find easy to access. How many of these big flagship structures are replacing smaller, more local things? How many of these are going to be in use in time for our kids to have any sporting ambition for the Olympics?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

I never knew the Greens were the sporting type; I always thought they kept away from competitive sports! I am glad you have raised this issue because one issue I have pursued whilst I have been an Assembly Member is playing fields and the loss of them. Last year I managed to do something through the Assembly's Environment Committee on this. I was particularly focused on those not in the schools, which tend to get a lot of attention in the media, but all the other bits and pieces like old ILEA's (former Inner London Education Authority) pitches in Brent...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

I have to just unpick that. You said the last time I spoke to you about it that Archway clearly needs to be sorted and that, because of its size and complexity, it would require years of planning and traffic studies. What I have also found out is that when you have a complex structure like this, one of the things you need is a TfL project manager. You do not need a project manager after the funds have been found, because it does not work that way. You need the project manager, especially in a case like this where...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

It is interesting that we said all along that we thought that improvements in bus services along that road would be a much more sensible solution than the tram. You have, however, spent about £30 million on this tram already. Is that not going to be money that is going to simply have been wasted if you now desert this preposterous plan that you have been pushing for some years?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

I think this is potentially startling news. Are you saying today, Mr Livingstone, that the West London Tram is not going to go ahead?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

Therefore are you going to be continuing to fund this team, even having said you are no longer going to proceed with the tram?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

Therefore what you are not able to say to the people of Ealing today is that you are cancelling the tram?