• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

The fact is that we just do not know on either count, do we?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

A lot of work has already been done on environmental issues at the LDA and it sounds as though that should be encouraged. In terms of encouraging `green- industries and recycling there is a really strong role for the LDA to play.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

I think I have made my point that Londoners are having to pay for national responsibilities and you are not making the case to your Government on their behalf.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Can you outline how this budget actually provides for taking forward your environmental strategies?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Not this year, though?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Our job and your job is to stick up for London. You have already acknowledged that the Government is taking billions, whether it is £9 billion or £15 billion, it is many billions out of the London economy in extra tax revenues more than we are getting back. Are you still of the view you were back in January 2003, when you were not in the Labour Party at that point, and you wrote to Nick Raynsford (Minister for Local Government) about the funding and he replied that he noted your concern about the lack of firm announcements on the...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

I am not sure I or anybody else follows the logic of that.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Finally, given you have mentioned borrowing, what element of the TfL budget is made up of borrowing?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

In terms of our tax contributions, which you have just referred to, it is considerably more than that. If you look at the list of critical national infrastructure, surely London has very considerably more than roughly one-fifth of the national resources, the national assets?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Do you not therefore agree with us that surely if you are not prepared to accept that the Assembly can vote on even something as minor and small as that and make such a recommendation, that really our supposed powers over this budget process, or involvement in it, is effectively a sham?