• 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.

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

Why can't you take a lead in this? You have got strategic oversight, and the fact is you could go to the boroughs and you could ask them to put a minimum provision of sports facilities.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Why do you only seem to oppose leisure centre closures if they are Conservative or Liberal Democrat closures and not Labour closures?

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

I am glad you have got some hopeful targets, but the fact is we are actually seeing a reduction in sports facilities in London at the moment, and the figures are in this excellent report that the Greens have published; in fact at every athletics track there are 200,000 Londoners who might use it, for every pool in London there are 60,000 who might use it, and these facilities are diminishing. I am sure you know that London has got two Olympic-sized swimming pools, whilst Paris has got 18 and Berlin has got 19. We are sadly, woefully behind. How...

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

Mr Mayor, one of the things you can do is to start the expansion of proposals to encourage people to participate in sport outside of the five so-called Olympic Boroughs, for example expanding the `kids swim for free' scheme. Are you proposing to do that?