• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Not such good news for people who may just have bought their new vehicle though; they have got it for five years. Can you give an assurance today that you are genuinely open minded about the consultation, and that you have not already got a lot of prefixed ideas, because if it is a genuine consultation it is important that people know that they have got a real opportunity to influence some of your thinking.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

But it will take more money off of a large number of people.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

I want to ask about the Congestion Charge; I agree that polluters should pay. This obviously may spur people to buy cars that are less damaging for the environment, but it may be that many families may need time to buy different cars or get rid of the ones they have got so I am interested in the timescale. You mentioned I think 2008 and 2009; is that a realistic timescale?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

One final question: why is it do you think that given the drive to persuade people to convert to cleaner cars is it so expensive right now for people who want to make that conversion to clean engines? I understand that figures of £5,000 are bandied around because they have to go to an approved TfL garage to have work done on their car. It is actually very expensive. Wouldn't one of the most sensible things you could do at this stage be to actually provide a bit of carrot rather than stick?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

No I am talking about anybody who would like to get their car converted to clean fuel.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

I welcome the use of congestion charging to reduce emissions, but your emphasis has been on carbon emissions; yes you are quite right that there is a long term goal to look out for, but you have not mentioned PM10s or nitrogen oxides, which probably adversely affect Londoners' health more than anything else. Will this initiative have a similar impact on those?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Well, I could highlight one in Kingsbury where precisely that did happen.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Chairman, can I declare an interest, as a Board Member of Sports England for the London region. I have been quite actively involved in trying to increase the physical activity of Londoners through the activities of Sports England, and it is pretty broad based across all the age groups and I think that is critical as much as concentrating on schools, although I am going to do that right now. Over this weekend I went to the London Youth Games, and it was quite interesting that the outer London boroughs did much, much better than the inner city boroughs on...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

What I am trying to get from you is some sort of commitment towards actually taking an overview on this and trying to encourage people. If you think about waste, for example, for some time you said you had no responsibility or no rights in that area, and yet you have now taken a lead and you have actually got things moving. Could you not do this on sports facilities, otherwise we are going to be a laughing stock I think. In Hackney 80% of children leave primary school without being able to swim, because they do not have the...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

There is one case in point, Holland Park Comprehensive, which has undoubtedly drawn a lot of attention, and will come under your nose, but apart from school playing fields, there are playing fields being lost in the rest of the public sector; for example, all the old Illier playing fields that I grew up on are virtually gone now. Something drastic does need to be done and I would suggest it is something which you could make some commitment to in the London Plan. I think that would be welcomed by the sporting community.