• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

Thank you, Mr Mayor. You will be a strange bed fellow.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

So in my New Year message to my constituents in the five villages I can say that you and I are one against the third parallel runway? I can spell it out exactly as it is called.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

The Office of Fair Trade is going to do an investigation of British Airports Authority's (BAA) monopoly of airports in and around London. Will you be making representations to them, and which way are they likely to go? My personal view is that it is likely to improve things for Londoners passing through airports but, unwittingly, it is probably going to increase slots for flights.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

Thank you, Mr Mayor. Do not let us forget there are already three runways at Heathrow so we are talking about a fourth, but it is called the third parallel runway. During the last Mayoral elections, you refused to come out against the third parallel runway at Heathrow because you would be the planning authority which had to determine whether it was going to or not. What made you change your mind?

• 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.