• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

Your Board says that they only deal with policy, but surely your Board and yourself would have much more power to push the Learning and Skills Council just a little bit more and get them a bit more imaginative, so in fact some kids that have skills in their hands could be plumbers and construction workers. If it was not for the Poles we would not be able to construct half of London at the moment!

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

But it means when you get home at the end of the day or they get to their office they can look. The point being, of course, that Park Lane is a freeway and therefore people are tending to use it because it is a designated route where they do not have to pay the charge.

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

I think that is reassuring as far as it goes. I am delighted to hear that you are not intending to profit out of what could have been a tricky situation for people on that particular day. As you said, you did take the decision on 7 July to do it. I would argue that the two situations were similar in their impact on motorists, even though, fortunately, those were bombs that did not go off on 29 June. Would it be possible, do you think, for Transport for London in future to simply put up on their website, as...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

Could I put it to you that the uplift in values of London's land should have gone back to London taxpayers? You have really sold out. What is more important, I would put it to you that there is nothing enforceable in this Memorandum of Understanding. It is not a legal document is it? Bearing in mind that Members of Parliament have taken the view that the management of this process is so complex that there is a great risk of further increase in costs to taxpayers, whether London or nationwide, what prospect is there that the figures that you...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

One point that is not mentioned in your answer is the £300 million that will need to be found from the budget from 2010. Where are you expecting the £300 million of expenditure to come from?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

In the past you have criticised this Assembly for proposing an increase of £25 million in borrowing. You said it was `betraying our grandchildren'. Do you think that £300 million worth of such borrowing will also be betraying our grandchildren?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

What guarantees do you have then from government in terms of the share of the possible uplift in value of land that would assist you in paying off both the debt and also the interest that you would pay on that debt?

• 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...