• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

Given your obviously genuine commitment to tackling climate change, why do your proposed alterations to the London Plan still support expansion at Gatwick and Stansted?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

So you are not going to be taking in any more by this nonsense from the aviation industry. Are you going to give an unequivocal guarantee that your London Plan will be amended in future to rule out, categorically, not only expansion at Heathrow as you have said but also expansion at Gatwick and Stansted?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

Thank you. That sixth terminal would fall into the same category?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

That sounded very encouraging but with perhaps a little too much conditionality at the end. Could you, categorically, rule out a third runway at Heathrow and a sixth terminal?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

You mentioned Crossrail. Did you talk to people there about the business input to the funding of Crossrail?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

The complaint is not about talking to them. The complaint is spending £30,000 to get nothing back from them.

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

If you are going to be boring we had better not send you!

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

You mentioned the parallel with party conference. Is not £20,000 or £30,000 for a drinks reception out of all disproportion to what goes on at party conferences?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

One further point. What did Jones Lang LaSalle expect to get back for their £12,500 that they subsidised your subsidy for?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

If the Conservatives are the spawn of the devil, is not the CBI the running dogs of capitalism! What are you pouring wine down the running dogs of capitalisms' throats for nothing back? What did we get back for it? If we got CBI support for not building the third runway at Heathrow, for example, that might be money well spent, but actually the CBI is in the vanguard of making the case for expanding Heathrow, and here you are pouring wine down their throats.