• 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?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

I just want to challenge Angie Bray's suggestion that writing to occupiers would miss a lot of people. The reality is, in those two local authorities ' City of Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea ' you have one of the highest transient populations. In some ways, I think that is probably the way to get through to them. For example, every time I go to Earl's Court, there seems to be a new set of Australians there. Those kinds of population movements are quite constant, and I think one way of getting through to them has been addressing it to...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Mr Mayor, you may well not be guilty of extrapolation, but you certainly partake in premature articulation. I say that because, on the one hand, down in Kensington and Chelsea, you are saying that a 40,000 result is very good, or a response is superb, and you can make a decision on it. On the other hand, a 17,000 response in West Ealing over the West London Tram ' which you have raised yourself ' was not sufficient, and you have indeed interpreted 813 interviews as supporting your Tram, despite it demonstrating a 12% drop in support. Mr Mayor, either...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Well, there is a figure, which comes from the Government's own estimates from the regulatory impact assessment, of £13.6 billion. Admittedly, that is a country-wide figure, but London would have a large share of that. Now, in your written reply last time, you said, `I have not instructed the Brussels office to lobby on this issue, as I welcome the scrapping of the opt-out from the 48-hour rule.' Given the fact that the 48-hour rule will have a very big impact on London, particularly on small- and medium-sized businesses, do you not think that Brussels House should lobby on behalf...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

It comes down to choice. People should be able to choose how long they work. On a more fundamental point, though, do you think that it is right that unelected bureaucrats in Brussels should be able to dictate to us how long our working week should be?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

On this issue, the Working Time Directive for the first time has guaranteed minimum holidays, rest breaks, and so forth for British employees. Given that your role as Mayor is to look out for the health and well-being of Londoners, do you see that this Working Time Directive contributes to that, and the social equality of life for Londoners is a matter that has to be taken seriously in this respect?