• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

Thank you, and I will certainly acknowledge that work is going on. That is very welcome. However, the point of the question, essentially, is to ask you to redouble or treble or quadruple your efforts in this area. I think there are only three people in the sustainability unit, and spending on this area is an absolute fraction of the total spending in TfL. Have you got any plans to increase the work they are doing beyond what is actually only a small beginning?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

I agree we cannot stop the world and say we want to get off, but equally the London Plan isn't a sort of predict and provide process. The London Plan is supposed to direct development to certain areas. If you take the Isle of Dogs, which is one you just mentioned, there are 10 times as many jobs predicted to be created there as homes. Should the London Plan not be doing more to get this balance right to fulfil the policy that is in there already, which is to reduce the need to travel?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

You raised the London Plan. Obviously there is an existing policy commitment, 3C1, to reduce the need to travel. However, when one actually looks at the projections comparing where the jobs are and where the houses are, there is a huge mismatch currently, hence the long commutes that people do. Is that not going to get a lot worse? If you just look, for example, at Croydon, which is already a centre of employment, there is going to be three times as many jobs in Waterloo, in terms of the growth projected to 2060, as there is in Croydon. If...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

On this issue about climate change and what TfL is doing, what about aviation? You have a plan about another Congestion Charging zone around Heathrow to try to discourage people at least taking their cars there, even though aviation is the real problem. Is there anything more on that?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

I think the emphasis from Mike (Tuffrey) has been on the movement of people between jobs and houses, which rightly is a focus in transport, but there is also the movement of goods and particularly freight. I am just wondering whether you can update us to what extent TfL are going to be doing anything on this front. I think there are some major reductions in transport demand that can probably be achieved and some of that business, clearly, can contribute, too.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

Can I ask what you are doing in the role of Mayor to encourage unions and employers to ensure that all London workers are paid the living wage? I can see that one in seven employees in the capitol do not receive this.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

You talked about direct employees. I wonder what we can do about subcontractors? Can anything be done when tendering for contracts that are going to weighed as part of those negotiations?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

Thank you, Mayor, for that. I do appreciate the points you are making about what the boroughs could do in terms of the energy provisions for their households. I also do think it probably indicates something about the density of accommodation, residential as well as other uses, within local authorities. It is clear it you look at the figures that actually the inner London boroughs like Camden, City, Westminster and Hackney have got much lower figures of CO2 emission per capita than the boroughs like Barnet and Richmond. I do not know if there are lessons to be learned from...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

You are quite right; energy efficiency measures like that would be useful. At the same time it seems as though, as a region, we are doing better than others. The basis on which you are starting a lot of your initiatives is a lot better than a lot of other parts of the country.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 21 June 2006

We are in a situation now following the vote in the upper chamber on Monday where we have a much clearer view. Firstly, Mayor, will you join me in congratulating those from the Labour Group who did the right thing on Monday of this week when they defeated the last ditch attempt to exempt private members clubs from the smoking ban. Needless to say, that was an attempt by the Tobacco Manufacturing Association. To follow on from what you have just said to Joanne (McCartney), will you consider using your considerable public media presence to work with TfL in January...