• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

Coming in on that very last point that Darren made, would you support the GLA supporting the BedZed planning inquiry that is going on at the moment, which is a carbon neutral construction in Merton and also the Harrow inquiry? You did say very clearly that planning is very important, but if we get these very early projects kicked back I think that will put a lot of the work that you are doing on the London Plan a few months or years, in fact, back. So, there is a public inquiry going on about that Merton case and also...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

Because it is too high or something.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

That level of detail is not something that is a strategic planning issue, a spatial development planning issue that would get into your London Plan. Part of our criticism of you is that you rely on your fairly limited powers instead of taking up a much more high-profile leadership role to get all the players round the table and, in our analysis, a UDC actually complicates that because it adds yet another layer of decision making.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

You said at the launch of Solar for London that `I can see no reason why every new building in London should not only have photovoltaics but also solar water heating panels installed on them." When is that going to happen?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

Sounds like it to me.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

So, you are washing your hands of green manufacturing in the same way that you are washing your hands of manufacturing in London generally?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

So, if we want solar panels to go on new buildings in London why do we not manufacture them here? In Wrexham, at the end of the year 2003 they are going to have their own photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing plant. Why can we not do this in London?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

It should be noted that the Mayor actually said something nice about a Liberal Democrat-run Council, I thought the theme for this morning was attacking the Liberal Democrats from all sides, I am glad others have joined in, entertaining if not particularly enlightening. If it is underground photovoltaics panels we are obviously after the Womble vote. I will check into the details, but I am sure it is not as you presented it. The serious point that I want to ask the Mayor about is whether he agrees that we should be using the opportunity of the Thames Gateway developments...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

Were you pleased that the Liberal Democrats were supporting the zero energy developments in Sutton and are you surprised that the Liberal Democrats in Harrow are leading the campaign of opposition against the zero energy development there? Does that surprise you?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 November 2003

So, if you got re-elected and if you put this in your manifesto, when could we see that happen?