• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Listening to you now I am confused about what role you actually see for the Super Boroughs because obviously you want to see a clear strategic role for the GLA. You are talking about local service provision at the community or the neighbourhood level. What have the Super Boroughs actually got to do? Surely the best place for strategic decisions is at the London wide level, and surely the best place for local decisions is at the local level?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

So would we not be much better talking first about role and function?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

But the scale of merger you are talking about is far more dramatic than putting two similar areas together.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

At your press conference yesterday you announced that TfL had overcome the concerns of local residents. How have these concerns been overcome?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

That expenditure and the fears that you put through West London certainly ensured that my seat will not be a Labour gain, as I believe it was predicted the day before the election in 2000. You will be aware that the project is under review and is likely to come back in January/February of next year. How soon will you be able to give a positive or negative response to that review and let the people of West London know what is likely to happen with their transport system?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

I have an elderly relative in her 80s who lives in West Ealing who has written to me repeatedly about this and I am getting rather fed up with it. Every month she gets another newsletter through her letterbox from either the Liberal Democrats or the Tories denouncing this scheme and telling her that her street is going to turn into a rat run and that she will not be able to cross the street for hours. I know where she lives and it is a total nonsense and scare mongering. It is not going to happen. There is a...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

But you have also stated your support for the green belt in Northeast London in answer to Noel's earlier question. Would you reaffirm your support for keeping that piece of green belt as well?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Unfortunately, Mr Mayor, this scheme has reared its head again recently in revised form. Do you share the concerns of local residents about the traffic that such a use would generate in an area which is residential and completely unsuited for all those extra vehicles on the streets, and indeed about the extra traffic there would be on that branch of the Central Line, which is not particularly good?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

A lot of these measures require personal support from individuals to achieve them. Have you reconsidered the decision made by TfL last year not to use recycled asphalt with glass in it for some of the TfL road projects?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Obviously, there is a planning role for you on the major referrals you get. However, the Budget Committee was told in terms of looking at planning applications for their energy content that `it has not been possible to respond to all referrals because of a lack of staff resources." That was as at July. So you have not even been bothered to check planning referrals in terms of energy. I agree with you 100%, you have bust a gut on affordable housing in terms of using your planning powers to the full and I commend you for that, but when...