• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Have you done an emergency exercise?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

You mentioned PM10s, and indeed, I have a question in a moment about that one. Can I just pursue, however, the point of the breach of the EU limitations. Friends of the Earth have said that they are asking the European Commission to prosecute the Government for the breach. The Marylebone Road station is already over that limit - the annual limit. Would you support such a prosecution?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

I share your desire not to waste money on lawyers, but if the Chair will allow me to pursue the point of low emission zones under this question - because your answer essentially was, let us get action, but certainly our perspective is that there is not that action. I do not see that action coming from central Government, and therefore I am attracted by the prospect of putting a shot across their bows through an EU-led prosecution. Can you tell us where we actually are with the low emission zones? I know there are feasibilities studies, further studies, and...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Yes, it was in my constituency, and local residents were worried that they were having something put next to them which would be a potential danger to them. Can you provide reassurance? Have you done any exercises to see what would happen if there were a disaster at that site?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

I would be grateful for that, and to do some research on the impact that that would have in meeting the target. Secondly, the Fuel Duty Rebate for buses - there is an inbuilt financial bias towards diesel, which mitigates against alternative fuels. Will you be lobbying and will TfL be lobbying to get that changed?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Jennette Arnold (AM): I have a number of constituents in Waltham Forest who are concerned about the LDA's strategy to boost tourism for north London boroughs, including Waltham Forest. Whilst they welcome that, they would have liked, if you like, greater participation in it, because one of their fears is that the richness ' especially the industrial history richness ' of that borough will not be featured, and what we might get is a David Beckham trail, which really does not do that borough justice. It is about, really, following on from what you have said, we need more transparency...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

That moan from me was to celebrate the fifth anniversary of my being evicted from an LDA board, because they do not allow Assembly Members to observe their meetings.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Although this may seem a local issue, it does raise very important questions about the responsibilities of developers. My understanding is that the developers are actually able to frustrate their own permission in a way that would possibly get them off having to provide this link, which would be a ridiculous outcome. I would emphasise that to have the stations not integrated into a single unit so that people can walk freely between the two without having to go through ticket barriers is pretty bloody important for Stratford. Otherwise, half to two-thirds of the objective of the Stratford International stations...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do you think that there is a risk that this could be a Trojan horse that helps to undermine the need to invest in the NHS in areas like Tower Hamlets, or on the other hand, do you think that this is an initiative that should be welcomed and copied in other parts of London?

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

I could not agree with that more, Mr Mayor. I find this absolutely incredible. I have nothing against improving health care by whichever method, but this particular Medecins du Monde, they go and work in third-world countries, where governments and localities cannot provide decent health care. Tower Hamlets is well-known as being one of the poorest boroughs in the country, with the highest mortality rate in London, so why on earth did the Department of Health not target this borough? It is too little, too late. They have set up spearhead PCTs, given extra resources, but it is already far...