• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

Moving on to funding, as soon as the euphoria has died down, there will be all sorts of scare stories about how it is going to go massively over budget, etc. It is our job here to make sure, through our scrutiny process, that we keep control of that. Could you outline how you are going to communicate clearly to Londoners exactly what the funding package is, because they have been given an awful lot of information that is very contradictory?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 July 2005

Mayor, I have three parts to my question. I will just give the three bits together. The journey from the first Romney House meetings to the Singapore shout of `yes' for London has been very challenging. Much respect for your bravery, and well done to you, Seb (Coe), and the team for bringing home the prize. Clearly, I come in behind Dee (Doocey) here, recognising that now the very, very hard work starts, as well as, I am sure, the accompanying whinging. Maybe we should have less whinging and more support is what I say. Would you agree that every...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Thank you for all the compliments. Can we just get back to the subject, because I am aware of time running, too. Let me just put it to you one more time: we have names and addresses that demonstrate that 40% of the people that we have written to are not aware that they have received any opportunity to take part in the consultation at their addresses. Are you prepared to concede that if I can supply you that evidence, that 40,000 ' or not ' may well be a very small percentage of the total number that you have...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

No, that is incorrect. I am afraid to say, the figures have been updated. We have now had a 10% response rate, or thereabouts, and 40%- I am not dragging these figures out of the air. We can provide you with the names and addresses, because unlike yours, all ours are properly sent to real people at real addresses, so we can actually provide you with all those people. I am not making this up. Would it be too cynical to suggest that you have not bothered to learn any lessons, because in the end, it does not really matter...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Could we just look at the creation of some further buffer zones around the proposed Congestion Charging area. Will you consider further buffer zones?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

I am intrigued by your answers to Angie (Bray) about the consultation. I want to focus on the residents of the area slightly outside the proposed zone, who of course are going to suffer very greatly as a result of the scheme, if it is introduced. Most people would say that in the Kensington area, there is a problem around the rush hour times, but not outside, during the major part of the day. What message do you have to the people of South Brent, who are going to suffer very greatly from increased congestion as people avoid going into...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

I am not going to go into the whys and wherefores of who received it and who did not receive it. What I would like to ask you, a propos buffer zones and discounts, did you give an assurance to Martin Linton, Labour MP for Battersea, that residents in Battersea would be given a discount, because that is, in fact, what he has been saying during the General Election?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Well, it sounds impressive, until you have actually drilled down a bit. I, myself, came across one of the little road shows halfway down Kensington High Street, and I said to them, `Do you think you would have needed to have been here if TfL had got its act together and all the letters had been properly sent to people with names and addresses?', and they both answered, `No, probably not.' The last time when we had this conversation, Mr Mayor, you said to me, `Do not worry. This is only the first round. We still have a second round...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

We all know that people against something are usually more vociferous, more vocal than those in favour. What sort of percentage are you getting of people who are in favour, given that that is going to be a lower percentage anyway?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

You have, in the past, stressed that this is not a referendum. Is that not really saying that you have made up your mind already, because you are not going to be bound by the results?