• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Is it not the truth that you actually only consult when the law requires you to do so?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

But you do anticipate some traffic rises, then, as a result of the fares going up.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Did you, on the campaign trail in June of this year, promise Londoners that you would do everything possible to give them an improved public transport system fit for the 21st century? Added to that, what projects in Sutton, Lambeth, Southwark and Islington would you have to cut from the TfL budget if you were to avoid fare increases?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Are you concerned that there will be traffic increases as a result of the bus fare rises and the Tube rises, and that people will be tempted back into their cars?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

The question talks about the consultation on the congestion charge increase. I wondered, firstly, when you intend to consult, how you intend to consult, and could you just reassure Londoners that there is some point in being consulted, given that you have ignored 66% of Londoners' views in the consultation which was recently undertaken on the extension of the congestion charge itself.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

So, if you had said, during the election to all of us 'I am going to increase fares well above inflation', we would all have believed you then and still voted for you.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

That is encouraging. Can you confirm that you have the power to direct the WLWA not to enter into a contract which will be detrimental to your waste strategy? Can you confirm that your waste strategy says that there should be no guaranteed minimum tonnage contracts?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

On the issue of recycling, what are you doing now to prevent boroughs such as Richmond and Enfield selling off waste management sites, which will be needed if London is to deal with waste by reuse, recycling, and composting?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

I do not want to encourage you to be too loose or too casual, but do you agree that building the second largest incinerator in Europe just outside the London boundary will directly conflict with your policies on waste, climate change, air quality, and so on?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 September 2004

The question was not implying that Manchester and Birmingham and these others have this problem sorted. The question is saying quite clearly that they are moving ahead and you are not. If you compare the UK position with every other country in Europe, you will see that in Belgium they recycle 60% of batteries sold; in the Netherlands, a third; in Sweden, 55%. In the UK, it is barely 5%. Is it not utterly deplorable that in your fifth year in office, you have done nothing to recycle one of the most toxic elements of the waste stream?