• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

We are talking about on the individual.

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Valerie Shawcross [AM] and I raised with you concerns about the impact of the Congestion Charge on schools inside the zone, as compared with very similar schools immediately outside the zone. In the work that TfL is doing, are you looking as well at the broader issues of the double whammy that could hit people who have workplace parking places inside the congestion zone? We do appreciate the issues about primary legislation to identify a workplace parking space, as you have identified just then. But that is something that needs to be included if you are looking at this in...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Will you look at Nottingham?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Has TfL actually done a further study since the ROCOL [Road Charging Options for London] Report of four years ago?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Why do you think Nottingham are pursuing this and looking into it?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Where are you getting your information from about the difficulties of effectively enforcing a scheme? None of the legal advice and professional advice I have looked at suggests that it would be impossible.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Steve Norris is not at all in favour of workplace parking, because of the finances of it. But I was going to say one of the reasons why he is not is because is it not the truth that where companies might be prepared to take on the £3,000 for their employees, those employees would then attract tax on the benefit?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

It is very irritating when you constantly mention the fact that we are trying to stop poor people from having a bridge. What we are trying to prevent is huge planning blight for those people. That is what is going to happen around that particular bridge at Thames Gateway. Nobody is going to want to live close to it. Going back to Stratford, we have got one of the biggest transport hubs in Europe there. Why, oh, why does anybody have to bring a car, except in an emergency? When you talk about London-wide, you have got to think of...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

I am really sorry, but I just do not think you are making the connection between once you offer car parking space you are actually opening up all sorts of social and environmental impacts that nobody seems to be monitoring. Why is nobody at TfL actually thinking along these lines? I am sorry if you are stretched, but this is something that really is going to matter in just a few years.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

It is really not that simple, is it? Because, when you encourage people and give them the opportunity to drive, they will do it. What we have to do is always offer other options. What I am wondering is, perhaps the London Plan guidelines are actually too generous and we should be re-thinking those.