• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

That is a very full answer, and it is good to hear what the actual numbers were behind this advertising campaign. Do you think that spending that sort of money on promoting, for example, the fact that Transport for London is in charge of transport in London is necessarily a good use of public money?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

Only you are not answering the question, are you?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

We are clearly straying a little bit. I did not go to public school, and I use public transport every day to go to and from this place and on constituency business. It is not always as good as what is depicted in this advert. To come back to the original question, is this not a huge waste of money when fares are going up by more than you promised, when the Congestion Charge is going up by more than you promised? Should you not be keeping your house in order in these ways, and will it not just be...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

Oh dear, and I wonder what you did.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

Do you think that the journey depicted in the advert is representative of Londoners' day-to-day experience of public transport?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

Do you think that Gordon Ramsay is a suitable person to use to promote transport in London, and why that particular individual?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

It is an advert, it is not reality.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

I think everybody understands that. How is it going to impact on Londoners now who want housing? You already told us, right at the very beginning of this answer to my question that you want boroughs to enforce this, as well. Does that mean when they submit their local development frameworks to you, you will reject them if they do not incorporate this requirement?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

The 20% increase in the renewables target is very welcome, but have you thought that rather than having to go through the hassle of having to keep increasing this every few years as the technology improves and the need for change becomes ever more urgent, why not just set incremental targets within the London Plan for the renewables target so that it will increase by X% every five years or so? This would provide a much clearer framework, and also help boroughs with their Local Development Frameworks (LDFs); it would be far easier for them to incorporate and keep updating...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

So your powers over boroughs and the way in which you are going to constrict borough freedoms, is going to increase very substantially?