• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

This is not a personal complaint, Peter!

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

It is very interesting to hear you say that actually, nothing has changed since you were a boy walking down the Strand and that traffic levels and congestion levels and speed levels have remained pretty much exactly the same with or without your congestion charge. Does that not rather much confirm what some wag said to me not so long ago, which was that `the congestion charge is a charge we pay for congestion which we used to get for free'?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

Let us refer to a report which might be a bit closer to your heart, namely, an official report into the western extension that has been done by TfL. That report says that there could be a net shift of car-borne custom to shops and other facilities outside the extension zone. Are we not in the extraordinary position where there could be no improvement in the congestion, no profit from the scheme, and a loss of business? In other words: a lose, lose, lose scenario.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

Nicky Gavron (AM): I want to follow up on what Murad Qureshi [AM] was saying in terms of the congestion charge in the context of equity and quality of life. I do not know the updated statistics of how many households across London do not have a car.

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

He then developed an argument for subsequent intervention on traffic light systems in central London, and also the suggestion of the pedestrianisation of parts of it. I just wanted to know to what extent have TfL developed those two areas?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

In the recent survey to which this comment refers, are you aware that road speeds on six key routes have been shown to have fallen from about 12 down to eight miles per hour? Does that concern you?

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

I have got to correct Angie [Bray, AM] actually; it is not the level of cars in the centre of London, it is actually car ownership which has dropped in central London, and I think a lot of central Londoners are thankful for congestion charging insofar as it is one way in dealing with the huge numbers of vehicles coming in. The question I want to pose to the Mayor is actually going back to the original Tony Travers article. I think one central argument that he had there was that there was a case for one road authority in...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

Mr Mayor, do you think it is incumbent upon those in public life to cooperate with the police when they are stopped and legitimately asked questions?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

Dee Doocey (AM): Sorry, did I hear you correctly? Did you say the MPS have agreed to publish monthly figures?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

This is not the first time that we have been asking for this information to be made public. Nobody has ever suggested that what you are now suggesting is that we could have it in private. I, personally, would be happy if that were agreed, but you are the Mayor, we are asking you the questions, and it is for you to come up and say, `Yes', you will support us.