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

I agree with your responses to Tony Arbour in your initial response, but can I just make the point that very often we think in terms of the big airports ' Heathrow and Stansted'

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

Can I ask you if you have done anything with the Government about the Government's change of noise quota, which would in fact allow more 747s to be flying over London and into Heathrow?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

You obviously want board members who can think for themselves and who make their views clear, but do you think if you had the majority of elected Members who were properly accountable to Londoners, who could actually listen to the views of London on airport expansion, [on the board] you might get a different view coming out of the LDA?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

I am pleased that you are continuing to take a robust view on the third runway. I wonder if you are willing to take an equally robust view on the continuing existence of night flights and the suggestion that the cap on the total number of flights should be removed?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

You have previously stated your opposition to hidden subsidies to the aviation industry such as the absence of taxes on airline fuel. However, in the last five years, the LDA has spent nearly £6 million on projects related to the aviation industry. What do you think about these hidden subsidies from the LDA and do they need to be ended?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

I have been a member of the LDA Board for two or three years now and I do not recall a single report explicitly on aviation and supporting the aircraft industry. I saw a report about the ancillary benefits. What we have done is we have invested in helping to secure the economic spin-offs of airport-related inward investment to London, including the initiative to encourage East-enders to get jobs at Stansted airport, which has provided a massive economic boost for the east London economy. Would you accept that that sort of initiative is very welcome and should be encouraged?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Some people feel that TfL is not responsive when it comes to consultations and has difficulty responding to the amount of correspondence that you might get from customers. With the opportunity of a new bill going through Parliament, do you think there might be an opportunity to codify, or even restrict, some of those responsibilities?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

TfL gets a huge amount of correspondence about its consultations and other issues. It must be a very difficult task to deal with. In the new GLA Bill do you think there will be any value in codifying the responsibilities of TfL to respond to consultations on traffic issues?

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

Would you agree that the policy is predicated on a philosophy that says car bad, public transport good?

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

Brian Coleman (Chairman): I am not sure you have, Mr Hendy. Angie Bray (AM): You began to touch on it.