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Congestion Charge and Foreign Embassies (Supplementary) [5]

  • Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
Yes, but you are prepared to make an example of the Americans. The issue is that embassies are not paying the congestion charge. Angola and Nigeria owe over half a million pounds each, Tanzania owes £233,000, South Africa owes £214,000, and so the list goes on. These are not small figures.

Congestion Charge and Foreign Embassies (Supplementary) [4]

  • Question by: Murad Qureshi
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
Yes, it is probably the case that the Republicans will be put in their place next month in the elections in the States.

Congestion Charge and Foreign Embassies (Supplementary) [3]

  • Question by: Murad Qureshi
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
Is this problem further exacerbated by the whole anomaly we have anyway, with foreign registered vehicles?

Congestion Charge and Foreign Embassies (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
If you cannot take the Americans to court, why not take one of the smaller embassies?

Congestion Charge and Foreign Embassies (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Valerie Shawcross
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
If there is a stalemate on this issue, which there does seem to be at the moment, and if it is true that the Americans are being advised by their lawyers that they cannot pay the congestion charge, is there not scope for a negotiated settlement on this. The Americans, I understand informally, might be willing to pay an amount, equivalent to the congestion charge, into a charitable account of some sort, which could be used for a charitable purpose, which I would have thought would include community transport or something of that sort? It does seem to me that...

Bob Kiley TfL Consultancy (Supplementary) [33]

  • Question by: Roger Evans
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
He would be paying for it?

Bob Kiley TfL Consultancy (Supplementary) [32]

  • Question by: Roger Evans
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
It is just I recall ---

Bob Kiley TfL Consultancy (Supplementary) [31]

  • Question by: Roger Evans
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
How much of London taxpayers' money has the GLA spent?

Bob Kiley TfL Consultancy (Supplementary) [30]

  • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
Ninety days, because that is all that he is allowed for tax purposes to work in this country. Ninety days.

Bob Kiley TfL Consultancy (Supplementary) [29]

  • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
  • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
You have already, effectively, begun the negotiations around the break-clause in 2010 on the PPP. Is that what you are saying?
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