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

Do you think having more control over the housing will make it possible to reach affordable targets, and if so, how?

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

Could you expand on that a little more? Does that mean that you would not provide funds to any housing authority which does not agree with your London Plan Strategy?

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

Can I say that, although we have been talking about housing supply and the importance of putting a foot on the accelerator on housing supply, I do have a concern about nomination rights for social housing. Under the current system, as we all know, nomination rights for housing associations and council housing lies within the boroughs. If we are to have a London-wide strategic view on supply and distribution of housing ' land for housing is other than evenly spread ' how are we going to make sure in the future that Londoners from boroughs with a very high, long...

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

I am relieved to hear you say that you are willing to adapt to individual borough strategies, but there can be no doubt that were you to control this particular stream of investment in housing across London, in effect, you would become the housing authority for London, would you not?

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

When you get your new powers, are you planning to synchronise the revision of the London Plan and the Housing Strategy, so they are on the same cycle?

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

I suppose we should be grateful for your frankness on this, and I suspect residents of outer London will be grateful for the fact to know that if you would get these powers, it is your intention to spread the social problems of inner London to the outer London boroughs, just as vigorously as you sought to do so before the GLC was abolished, so we are very grateful for that. Can you help about this, though? Do you intend to look at some unintended consequences of the London Plan in housing matters? May I give you this example. In...

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

Can I simply add that the Commission on London Governance has been looking at housing, and it has been very interesting to listen to the evidence of key players on housing. Can I say you were far more polite about GOL than many of the experts in the field. The head of the London Housing Federation (Berwyn Kinsey) said, `The strongest reason for letting the GLA take over is that GOL have done such a bad job of having the strategy and having the money. They have represented us badly.- We are all very pleased that the announcement has now...

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

What I was actually looking for ' and indeed, I find it in your Report, when you comment on page 6 about the powers being transferred to you, and you say, `I look forward to working with Ministers to agree arrangements for the budgets for housing investment to be transferred to me.' Does that mean that you foresee the GLA as becoming a Housing Authority, like the Greater London Council (GLC)?

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

What I was actually looking for ' and indeed, I find it in your Report, when you comment on page 6 about the powers being transferred to you, and you say, `I look forward to working with Ministers to agree arrangements for the budgets for housing investment to be transferred to me.' Does that mean that you foresee the GLA as becoming a Housing Authority, like the Greater London Council (GLC)?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

The simple yes is that there are now 36,000 extra flights a year under Labour since 1997 coming in and out of Heathrow. If we are going to get really technical, why are you and the Government still clinging to the 57-decibel level as a means of measuring noise disturbance when the World Health Organisation level recommends 50 decibels, and, supposedly, that is what the Government has actually signed up to?