• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

Mr Mayor, obviously the concern you have raised about the availability of social housing is of concern. Do you support the idea of assessing peoples' means to qualify for social housing, and possibly for the removal of the right of children to succeed to council tenancies?

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

Should the right to buy go then, or at least be modified so that homes are only sold if they are replaced?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

That is not because of our Congestion Charge; that is what is happening anyway and it has been for some years, before we ever thought of doing this.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

These were done through technology in consultation with industry's manufacturers. That is how that process was done. This is not. This is a sudden and swingeing tax to be imposed upon people who have a car, a five year old, possibly petrol-engined Mondeo, which all of a sudden they have to pay £25 for. Can I move to the second half of the question. I have to say I have looked at some of the newspapers in different cities and in different countries and I will just quote you one letter from a newspaper in Manchester: 'Just look what you...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Would you appreciate why they would feel concerned that this would, in many ways, be a complete turnaround on the principle that they felt they had established with the Mayor that there should be a discount for all residents with cars in the western extension?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Curiously, I travelled in on the Tube today with the Leader of Kensington & Chelsea Council and we were talking about this very subject. You will be aware that Kensington & Chelsea has actually remained entirely neutral about the issue of how much you want to charge large vehicles and large engines, but they are not at all neutral about the issue of the loss of the principle of the discount for residents. Are you prepared to do battle with Kensington & Chelsea over this?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

If you do believe in this system, what proposals have you made regarding these inconsistencies about the type of car that will qualify or not? Have you made proposals to the Mayor on that to make it fairer?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

And what referendum did they have?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Peter, I can pretty much assure you that no doubt the Dutch Government would do it as a matter of course, having not long been re-elected. If they had a referendum, they would not do it, just like in Edinburgh when it was put to a referendum. In spite of every single body, every single organisation going for it, they voted substantially against. It is the same with many other situations and that will happen more as a result of you bringing in this type of swingeing taxation. That will happen more in places like New York and in California...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

I wonder, Peter Hendy, whether you were aware of, or indeed were using in making the case for emission-based charging, the fact that earlier this year, I think it was around February, the University of Southern California came out with its research, which really gives the evidence for what we knew anecdotally, which is that if you live close to a very traffic-blighted road with high vehicle emissions, then if you are growing and your lungs are growing, and you are any age from 0 to 18, it does not just exacerbate asthma, the particulates and the various toxic emissions...