• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

We have put forward alternative sites, which they refuse to take up.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

I totally agree with you that there is a desperate need for a new school, and that is what Opposition councillors in Lewisham have been saying for years, and that is why Opposition councillors and Opposition parties opposed Labour's decision to close a school. It was only when they demolished a school that they realised, then, that there was shortage of places. I mean, what barmy thought-process they went through, I do not know. Opposition councillors did get together and put forward alternative sites for a new school, which Labour have clearly failed to listen to. I would hope that...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Well, residents will be left for at least three years without any leisure facilities in the centre of Lewisham, and it is not practical to suggest that everyone can just go off to the south of Lewisham to go swimming. There is huge concern and huge opposition about this in Lewisham, and it does seem to clearly contradict the policies in your London Plan about the need to ensure local sports facilities. Going for three years without this facility, I think, is unacceptable. You said before in response to the question about post offices that, where it clearly contradicted the...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

You have had four years to build capacity now.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

In previous budget debates, you have been reluctant to consider a significant increase in spending on the environment, in spite of, I think, repeated requests from the Greens each year. Does the introduction of this Climate Change Agency signal a re-think in that area?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Mayor, could I stop you. I can see you have got quite a lot there, and I do welcome everything you have said. I welcome all of that, and I have various schemes here, that I was going to ask you if you would support, but in fact, I can see you are trying to do huge amounts to combat climate change, which is what we are trying to do, as well, Darren (Johnson) and I. Nonetheless, at the same time, you are actually adding to the problem with more road building and in particular the Thames Gateway Bridge. Now...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Can I ask you specifically about the Kyoto targets and the fact that the TfL Business Plan is now saying that we are highly unlikely to achieve those. Could I ask that the plans come forward? Indeed, TfL's environment report, which is notably silent on this, actually says what it would take to achieve those, because I know you are signed up to it, as indeed we are, so can we see what it would take to do it?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

You think we will be happier this time, then, than last time.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

That is a very welcome reply, Mayor, and I am very grateful for that, and obviously, my constituents ' I had always hoped this was not a party political issue ' are anxious about keeping their Tube station open. I do not really think I need to ask you anything further. I was going to ask whether you would be happy to issue a statement following this meeting clarifying that, so it can be paraded properly in the local press, and we can end this uncertainty.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

I am sorry that the questions about the East London Line have got scattered through the agenda, but this is an important one for us in south London. I gather that the regeneration report may not be as positive as we had wanted. We did want to build both a transport case and a regeneration case for putting stops in Brixton and Loughborough Junction on the East London Line Extension. Can I ask you whether or not, as Chair of TfL, you would take on board the broader issue of the state of the stations? I am conscious that TfL...