• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

That expenditure and the fears that you put through West London certainly ensured that my seat will not be a Labour gain, as I believe it was predicted the day before the election in 2000. You will be aware that the project is under review and is likely to come back in January/February of next year. How soon will you be able to give a positive or negative response to that review and let the people of West London know what is likely to happen with their transport system?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

I have an elderly relative in her 80s who lives in West Ealing who has written to me repeatedly about this and I am getting rather fed up with it. Every month she gets another newsletter through her letterbox from either the Liberal Democrats or the Tories denouncing this scheme and telling her that her street is going to turn into a rat run and that she will not be able to cross the street for hours. I know where she lives and it is a total nonsense and scare mongering. It is not going to happen. There is a...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

But you have also stated your support for the green belt in Northeast London in answer to Noel's earlier question. Would you reaffirm your support for keeping that piece of green belt as well?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Unfortunately, Mr Mayor, this scheme has reared its head again recently in revised form. Do you share the concerns of local residents about the traffic that such a use would generate in an area which is residential and completely unsuited for all those extra vehicles on the streets, and indeed about the extra traffic there would be on that branch of the Central Line, which is not particularly good?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

A lot of these measures require personal support from individuals to achieve them. Have you reconsidered the decision made by TfL last year not to use recycled asphalt with glass in it for some of the TfL road projects?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Obviously, there is a planning role for you on the major referrals you get. However, the Budget Committee was told in terms of looking at planning applications for their energy content that `it has not been possible to respond to all referrals because of a lack of staff resources." That was as at July. So you have not even been bothered to check planning referrals in terms of energy. I agree with you 100%, you have bust a gut on affordable housing in terms of using your planning powers to the full and I commend you for that, but when...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

So are your officers checking planning applications now for their energy content?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

But you had some tough negotiations with developers over affordable housing targets and you were right to do that. Why could you not have had some tough negotiations with them over energy targets?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

This is a question about empty homes, which is one of the targets. The total has indeed come down, and that is very, very welcome, from 114,000 empty homes in London in 1999 to just under 100,000. Most of that reduction has been in the public sector. In the private sector, which is 83% of the total, some 80,000 remain stubborn and have not moved during your period of Mayoralty. Given that you have few, if any direct, powers in that regard is this not an area where you need to show leadership? Therefore, have you not actually failed to...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

On the issue of home insulation, you said that you would take a personal lead on ensuring the delivery of an effective programme of home insulation in your manifesto. How many homes have been insulated as a result of your personal lead?