• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Thank you, Mr Mayor, for making reference to a significant part of my own constituency which is Heathrow. Heathrow is not included within your Low Emission Zone Policies. It is specifically excluded at the moment. How far have you got with your negotiations to have it included?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

A final point is just going back to the runways, because obviously the tax helps but if the capacity is not there then you are choking off the demand. Can you just repeat what you said in terms of the commitments that you are putting in the London Plan about additional runway capacity?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Specifically, a lot of this stuff is regulated in Europe, as indeed it needs to be given that flights take off from here and land somewhere else and have to be refuelled there unless you get a Europe wide approach. I have studied the programme of our European Office in Brussels, and I cannot see any action that they have succeeded in taking yet to lobby successfully on this issue. Will you assure us that, in terms of the funding we are putting into the European Office, they are lobbying Brussels on these fuel tax issues?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

One final question; would you agree with me that the arguments that have been put by those who would have a third runway that somehow Heathrow will reach tipping point and go backwards, and that the economy of West London will be massively damaged as a result, that that is rather overstating the case?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

That remains in the current Plan that is going into the examination this summer?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Just coming back to your lobbying on the Climate Change Bill, can I be right in assuming that one of the elements you will be lobbying for will be the annual turning the clocks back in the winter and putting the clocks forward, given that there are some energy advantages in doing that?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

I want to pursue the same point, and there is a question, 572, which I will ask now, about government action, because the situation is even worse than actually Darren [Johnson] says. The 60% reduction by 2025 excludes aviation, and as soon as you factor that in, the required reduction is a lot higher. Could you tell us, in answer to the question that comes in a moment, what action specifically you have secured or expect to secure from government, since we are all agreed that is the crucial thing that needs to happen? On aviation.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

But you do not own the roads around Heathrow either, and the access points, because they are part of BAA (British Airports Authority). The only thing you own is probably the traffic lights which stop you turning left.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Mr Mayor, thank you for the peroration, but can we get back to the Low Emission Zone and its exclusion of Heathrow.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

I would imagine that part of your Climate Change Action Plan will need to look at the role played by the airports around London. I wonder whether you are going to join some of us in West London in campaigning vociferously against a third runway at Heathrow Airport?