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

Do you detect a slight change of tone in the Government's view? They seemed very pro the idea of going forward. Do you now detect a slight change because of the new concerns about climate change?

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

That has got to happen.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

I do not necessarily buy that argument that just because something requires government action it cannot go in the London Plan. There are hundreds of things in the London Plan that require government action; the funding of Crossrail, all sorts of things. I do not buy that argument. I really think there is a problem with this mismatch between the ambitious targets in the Climate Change Action Plan and the unambitious targets in the London Plan. I think it sends out a confused message. I would urge you, even if the EIP (examination in public) process does not recommend a...

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

What do you intend to do as part of that campaign? I have already assembled a group of 12 signatories to a letter to the Prime Minister which I have already been told as been passed on to Douglas Alexander, surprise surprise. What can we all do together to ensure that the message is heard loud and clear that Heathrow cannot do with a third runway if we are going to bear down on climate problems? Also, there is the issue of noise pollution for a lot of residents in West London, which is only going to be massively aggravated.

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

Our Environmental Tax Switch Policy which we launched last year - not last week - and which you also agreed to, involves switching the taxes from individuals to the aircraft. That is the only way you are going to get the airlines to take action, if you tax their fuel consumption. Would you agree that what we need from government is a switch of taxation on to the fuel, not on to the passenger?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You probably share my disappointment that the Government talked out Tim Yeo's Private Members Bill in relation to British Summer Time.Given your comments about the impact of aviation expansion on CO2 emissions, would you agree with me that the points that have been raised in this debate reinforce the view that any expansion of airport operations at Biggin Hill Airport to encompass scheduled or chartered flights, as has been suggested, will be wholly against the interests of London, would certainly run contrary to the reduction of CO2 emissions, and can you confirm that your will continue to oppose any such...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

I accept the argument that you cannot just shoehorn something in at the end of a consultation process, just in the middle of the examination in public, doubling the reductions target. Will you then commit to consulting on the 60% cut in line with your Climate Change Action Plan as part of a new consultation exercise?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You are partly right! I did meet with passengers on the 903 who include some good friends of mine in the Shadwell area, and constituents of course. But I also spent some time in the last month with passengers who use the 953 service in Dagenham. I am not a bus spotter so I will not give you a detailed exposition on its route, but basically --

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

But possibly the reason it reaches that point is because you have gone down to one service a week, you change the day on which it operates. I found, for example, that on one of those routes it chooses whether or not to go down a particular road depending on whether they have been told the day before there might be people waiting for it there! That does seem a rather strange way to operate a service that people who are particularly vulnerable want to rely on as part of our community.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

I am more interested in the policy issues underlying this, because you are in charge of TfL as Chair.