• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

One of the proposals you made during the election was to have a Single Waste Authority for London. How do you plan to take that forward?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

In your first answer you mentioned you had a tax emission strategy. What are the objectives of that strategy and how do you intend to pay for it?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I am glad you have picked up things during the campaign. I also picked up the idea of the buffer zone, which is an issue amongst the residents of North Westminster. Will TfL look into the feasibility of that? It sounds as though there is some consideration of that on the Earl's Court boundary.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I am becoming really concerned that you will go wobbly on all this, and not be as tough as you have been. There are many people out there who support the Congestion Charge, including 90% of MPs, so please do not go soft and cave in to pressure from virtually all the way around the table. It strikes me that with the present boundary, or even with the extended zone, you could offer the Government the option of using London as a pilot project for their satellite experiment and this would bring it closer for London, and also create a...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

Can I congratulate you on achieving an almost unique event, namely bringing a consensus on Brent Council opposing the westward expansion of the Congestion Charge Zone. I note that what you have said today is about the Kensal Green Cemetery, which as you know is a very controversial local aspect of the whole proposed scheme. You mentioned in your remarks in answering the earlier question that there would potentially be two or three options that might come out, particularly for the area which affects the constituents I represent. I would be interested to hear you outline today the early stages...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

South London as defined by Andrew Pelling (AM) is actually I think the South London's Sub-regional Partnership Area, which excludes the most deprived boroughs south of the river. So it excludes Lambeth and Southwark and it excludes Greenwich and Lewisham. I would hate my colleagues to think that the whole of South London is encapsulated in his comments there. Would you like to say something about the work the LDA is doing in the really important parts of South London that other Members represent?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I am very concerned about this issue of redistribution of wealth, particularly as it applies to South London. One example of wasting the wealth of all London is the £22,860 you have granted to CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) to use this building in September. One area where you could invest a little bit further south than Crystal Palace, is Purley Cross. You started the achievement of improving it in Coulsdon, what do you think can be achieved over the next four years at Purley Cross?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

You promised that we would sit down the day after the election, so I hope we can sit down and discuss that. One of the things you did during the election campaign was to comment on the £600,000 bus shelter at Sutton. The Mayor said he was going to ask for the money back from Sutton Council. Was that a realistic comment to make during the election campaign, and does Sutton owe you this money?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I am sure you are aware, Mr Mayor, that Jeremy Bentham (the philosopher and jurist) is encased in glass at the University of London. I wonder whether you would consider, should this museum open, as we hope it will, putting the first gay chair of the London Assembly in a glass case in that museum.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

Have you any ideas about how this could be funded?