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

It is understandable that developers are very keen on the shared ownership schemes as part of their affording housing requirements. I would just like to see more of the subsidies we are putting in for housing for rent, rather than subsidising these schemes which I do not personally think stand up at all, increasingly.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

Well it may be a good idea to ask them if they do not want it straightaway, then you do not waste TfL's money or Greenwich Council's money on a programme which no one is going to support. Another of the options that is available here is for residents not to enjoy a level of discount. Will it be Transport for London or Greenwich Council who have the final decision on whether there is a resident's discount?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

It is interesting that you are taking a very cautious consultative approach on this project, rather unlike the debate on income support where you have not even spoken to the DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) but you have announced the date and some detail of the scheme. When is the earliest that any such Congestion Charging scheme could be introduced in your opinion?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

Of course what the studies will not show you is if anyone is opposed to the scheme locally because that is not an option they are being given to state to you. The options include charges from anything to £2 to £6 per day to enter the Zone. Who will decide on the charging level? Will it be yourselves or Greenwich Council?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

nother element of the scheme is to look at different types of vehicles and charge them differently, much as the proposals which you have for different emission vehicles in the Central Zone. How will the scheme work alongside a London-wide low emission zone? Is it legally possible to have them both running together?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

As a part of your investigative work has Transport for London considered using the mechanism of a toll, rather than a scheme, under its powers under Schedule 23 of the GLA Act 1999?

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

I think this particular example highlights a problem that we have, and the direction of Roger Evans' question highlights that as well, which is that when one listens to or reads the comments of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat front benches in parliament, they are supportive of the principle of road charging. They have said again and again and again. Yet for every individual instance where it is proposed people come up with ever so clever reasons as to why that could never happen in that particular area. I would very firmly endorse Mr Duvall's comments about consultation. Certainly charging...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

Some of the other things raised here talk about the interaction with the existing Central Zone, in other words if you pay your Congestion Charge in Greenwich, should you be able to travel for free on the same day in the Central London Zone, or at a discount. Does Transport for London have a view on that?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

The survey which you refer to that provides a number of different options for residents to comment on. One of the options that is not available is not having the scheme at all. Does that not show that you have made your mind up already?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

In this fog of debate that may be going on, Mr Mayor, can you just make it quite clear that when there is a proposal, there will be consultation? If it is wider than Greenwich then clearly there has to be a different level of consultation. If it is just Greenwich, it will be a Greenwich consultation. It will be a council decision. When we have got something to consult on properly, then there will be full consultation before any decisions are made. Can we just be very clear on that?