• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

The point I am making was a question of who is running London now? Will it be the Government or will it be you?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

If Labour Members of the Assembly heed Nick Raynsford's (Minister for Local Government) call to axe your budget, will you then just ditch some of the flagship projects? Which of your flagship projects will you ditch?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

So the question is: an independent Mayor or a Labour Mayor, which way works better? Maybe neither.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

In the Transport Committee, when Jay Walder came, John Biggs asked him, How happy would you be with a government grant settlement that had strings attached, that said, for example, 'we are giving you extra money, but we expect you to spend it in the Thames Gateway?" Now you have got the £200 million - Simon Hughes (Mayoral Candidate, Liberal Democrats) called it a `marriage of re-convenience; this is the dowry" do you think you are going to get the £100 million as well, for the Congestion Charge?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Can I just try to get a clarification of what I think you are trying to say? You are really saying that you have got concerns about making this westward expansion a priority at this time?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

The second part then, about the priority of this scheme. Labour Members are probably more agnostic than you are as the Mayor on this issue, but we want to see how the consultation develops. But I put it to you that fundamental to this policy is that it has got to be a priority for Transport for London to tackle congestion in London, whether it is in west London or whether it is in London as a whole. That strategy has got to be to deal with congestion in the suburbs as much as it has with central London, through...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Since Mr Kiley is with us this morning, I think it is a shame to waste the opportunity to put a few questions to him. I wondered, Mr Kiley, if I could ask you what your opinion is on whether or not the westward extension of the Congestion Charge zone should be a priority at this time, given all the other pressures on the finances?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

): What I wanted to ask you was whether you thought that other senior transport planners in Transport for London and indeed other Transport for London board members were in agreement with you that this was a high priority to extend the Congestion Charge, money willing. Well, not money willing, actually, because there is not any.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Returning to the question, it seems to me that there are actually two questions within this. One is about the precept and the budget, and the other one is about whether extending the Congestion Charge should be a priority. Taking the first, we are going to have a lengthy budget debate in the next month or so, and we do not need to go through that in detail now. But I think we should be clear, and I am seeking your confirmation or refutation of this, if you like, that a question that suggests whether or not the Congestion Charge...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Where would you put the extension in terms of your list of priorities? Is it a high priority, a medium, or should it be a low priority at this time?