• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 March 2006

I think we still need to explore it a little bit. You have made your position clear ' you would like to see the 32 boroughs abolished and five superboroughs created. You then also said later on that you would like to see the Assembly abolished and the 25 Assembly Members being replaced by borough leaders. Presumably your ideal scenario would be simply having five superborough leaders not only being responsible for making all the key decisions in those boroughs but also then holding you to account. You would basically have six people making all the key decisions in London...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 March 2006

Is the ODA going to be accountable on all this and is it going to publish the figures?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 22 March 2006

I think that was the visit that arose due to the state of correspondence, of which you very helpfully read Tony Blair's reply out for the record.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 22 March 2006

This particular proposal, there are no plans at all for at the moment if it is not in any of those programmes?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 22 March 2006

I do not actually have any major concerns about the Olympics themselves. If they go according to all of the stuff in the bid document, everything should be fine. I can see that appropriate things have been put in place to make sure that they are fully accessible. My concern is the situation at the moment. How are we ever going to grow Olympic athletes if we have a major situation, which we do, in that children with disabilities cannot get to after-school clubs in order to participate in sport and are in many ways being completely marginalised from any...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Parcelforce is a different case.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Thank you, you might as well.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

I have the Department of Transport's road speeds in front of me. They are significantly lower now than they were ten years ago. Is it not the truth that your traffic measures, such as adding bus lanes wherever you can, and rephasing traffic lights quite consistently across London - you would no doubt tell me to benefit pedestrians - has slowed up traffic? While it may be true that fewer cars are coming into London there is as much congestion as there ever was which is why we are seeing gridlock back again. You are taking with one hand and...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

No, because it probably is not!

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

But most people have to pay the Charge, businesses have to pay the Charge. You cannot seriously be saying that somebody who is making a delivery from Potters Bar or Hertford or somewhere and coming into London and adding it to a bill that they are doing, and then going back out, that that is ripping people off.