• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

You say that we are paying the costs of Mr Kiley running his house in London. Are we paying his Council Tax?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

We always get the impression when residents put forward ideas that there is not any money available and so people get very frustrated and feel that they are not really part of the system. In Richmond upon Thames when there was a proposal to get Section 106 money from a new elderly people's housing development, the planning transport officer wrote to TfL on more than one occasion and got no response or support at all. Is that because the policy is wrong or was it just incompetence?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Are you prepared to repeat the message that came from the LDA that no additional land would be purchased over and above that which is required to provide the Olympic venues?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

If we are looking at the precept, you have given some guarantees about the maximum amount of money that would be claimed from the Council Tax and what you would do if it overruns, etc. At the last Mayor's Question Time, you actually stated in answer to a question that the land take was being increased by 25% specifically to contribute towards the costs of the development of the Olympics; that land would be sold after the Olympics for a greater profit and therefore that would help fund the Olympics. When the LDA came last week, they specifically said that...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

This is interesting stuff but there is an awful lot of shroud waving for the week before Christmas. I wanted to return to the kernel of the question, which as far as I can see, and I think this is a very fair interpretation of the question, is that the Liberal Democrats are arguing on the one hand that they support the Olympics and on the other hand that Londoners are being mugged in some strange way. Would you agree with me that the current crisis in the Liberal Democrats, who are about to remove their leader (Charles Kennedy), will...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

I have two questions for you. Firstly, is the precept for the Olympics going to be listed separately on people's Council Tax bills or is it going to be rolled up into the entire bill?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

As the only party nationally that actually did press for a cap on what Londoners might end up paying, I think we feel very proud of our record on this because I think we are interested in looking after the best interests of Londoners. Have you heard the same rumours as I have that it now looks as if the burying of the power lines may be running over budget and over time as well? If so, how concerned are you that that is yet another aspect of the preparation of the site that appears to have been under-costed in...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

I really think that you are trying it on. Frankly, you have sat there time and time and time again and said £550 million, the price of a walnut whip, 38p ' another £75 million, another 2p. I find it extraordinary that you can sit there with a straight face and say Londoners do know what they are going to pay. It is nothing to do with the 2% in Band H; there are half a million people in Band E and a further quarter of a million people in Band F and in Band G another 200,000. There are...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Can you just briefly give us an update on the North London Line because this occurs on the North London Line? Where are we in your taking over of the North London Line and will you be looking at this as a key issue?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

There is not much disagreement in our positions here, and my friend Murad (Qureshi) has made a lot of the points that I wanted to make in actual fact. We have, as you probably know, just issued a report on the Public Carriage Office (PCO). I do not know if you have had an opportunity to read it, but I would certainly recommend that you do so. I am sure that you would find it a very interesting read. I have to say that the section on `The Knowledge' only accounts for about four pages out of 52.