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

Finally, then, I am forever being lobbied by house builders ' and you can understand why they do this ' who want to offer sub-market, rented housing for short-term periods for people on moderate incomes. There is often a catch in this, but do you agree that there is a case for providing sub-market housing for rent, rather than just for sale, for people on moderate incomes, who do not need social housing?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

I think I heard you say that you thought that housing ought to be provided on the basis of income levels, rather than occupation. Did I hear you correctly?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do you not accept that this idea that there should not be some kind of preferential treatment for people ' and I take the point you make about the lady who pushes a trolley is as important as the surgeon ' that by making this change, that is really going to strike at the heart of local education authorities (LEAs) in London, and it is going to strike at the heart of health authorities, where they are finding it infinitely more difficult to recruit teachers and skilled workers in the health service than they are finding it to recruit people...

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

Do you think that Mayor of London has a role ' and again I suspect the answer is `yes,' and I would like to hear how that will be exercised ' in influencing Government to secure additional funding for social housing?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do you have breakdown between inner London and outer London on these 4,250 dwellings?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do you believe that the right use for this publicly owned land is to provide new homes for people already on the housing ladder, or to give them the opportunity? What about all the people, like the 67,000 families that are in the most appalling conditions in temporary accommodation and in the hostels that are bursting at the seam? What about those people, who are really the most needy in society? What is being done to help them?

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

That confirms the information that I have, that the low-emission zones and the taxis on top of that are not enough to achieve the targets. That is why we need, essentially, to change the specifications of the vehicles driving on the roads, and that requires national action. Indeed, it requires European action. Despite the noises we hear from colleagues opposite, there is no point nationally in regulating for engine technology, if people can just simply drive into the country with a lower-regulated vehicle from a different country. Therefore, we need action at all levels, if we are to get there...

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

Thank you, and if I can take it on from the low-emission zone, because reading the feasibility studies, it is clear that ' certainly in the first phases ' that does not actually achieve a significant reduction in PM10s. Indeed, the national Air Quality Expert Group, which published its report just a few days ago, concluded that `controlling background particulate matter must be a central part of a UK national strategy.' My question is what, beyond the low-emission zone, are we able to do to reduce the PM10 particulates.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

What will you do?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

It is going to be extremely difficult for you to explain ' and certainly to those Members of the Assembly who support you ' to say that with one hand, this publicly funded organisation opposes the third runway, even if it is only an arms-length organisation which it is. Let us be clear about it, notwithstanding what you say about appointing cronies and so on. I have to say, you have never been loath to appoint cronies to any of your boards. You talk about scouring the country for appointees. You did not scour very hard to find Tories to...