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

My final question on this is that often, if you have for example more mature children, people often need to buy the larger cars. My understanding is there are not many of those larger cars that have average, or lower than average, emissions. I am just wondering what pressure you are going to bring bear onto those car companies who draw that market?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Thank you very much. Can we just be clear on the timetable, because now the news is out people will want as much information as they can get about this. When will you be actually publishing the different categories of vehicle and, secondly, when do you expect to make a final decision on the detail?

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

Obviously one of the things you said this morning that will be of concern to some of my residents, is the idea that you might be considering actually withdrawing their discounts. In the Western Extension, where there is some dread about the arrival of your extended Congestion Charge, as you know, this could prove to be extremely scary for people who are just about to get the Congestion Charge extended there, but they have of course already bought vehicles. Presumably you will be wanting to consult very carefully with the people in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to...

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

When the Liberal Democrats proposed a scheme to increase the charge for higher polluting vehicles you have said `oh it is too difficult to do', so actually I am quite heartened by that reply.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

One of the problems with the planned Western Extension is the people who get the discount can also travel into the Central Zone, which means that there are more vehicles polluting the atmosphere. Although I certainly support the discount, don't you think it would be sensible to have discounts that apply to either the Central or the Western Zone and not both?

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

Finally, if the charge is going to go ahead in this manner what targets are you going to set in terms of carbon reductions. In other words, it is not some vague thing, if you are saying it is X now, the introduction of this charge from 2008 to 2012, you must have some aim in mind that it can be judged by?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

You ought to be leaning on your friends in China and in India, because of course the effect that they have in a single day will be as much as this has probably in a century in reducing global pollution.

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

What I am suggesting is though that people who want to change their vehicles that are a bit dirty now, it is a very expensive process, the way it has to be licensed by TfL. Wouldn't that be a good first step to bring that down, to make it more encouraging for people to do that?

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

You must have done some work on the revenue implications of this already. Is it not really simply driven by the fact that the scheme needs to make more money. You sigh but the fact is it does need to because the Western Extension zone is not going to financially stack up, so is this not really a way of trying to raise more money and what are the revenue implications as the plan you currently see it?

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

Would this apply to cars that have recently been manufactured or would it apply to all cars?