• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

I welcome the opportunity for the Assembly to have an input, but I was quite surprised when I read the list of the last five. I wondered if I might be allowed to see the information about who was invited and where the advertisement went out and what the brief was?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Can I ask the Mayor to do a couple of things while he is talking about the Olympics, and actually talk about Cultural Olympiad, that for two years prior to Olympics actually maximises the cultural wealth and the engagement of the local population that is the centre of the Olympics. Secondly, could he let every Assembly Member have a full briefing as soon as possible about the point that he has reached? It is clear that every Member is absolutely committed to the Olympics and they want to do everything they can to ensure that we get a successful bid...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

The Sydney Olympics were proclaimed as the greenest Olympics ever. Do you think that London's could be greener?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

My problem has always been that because we have so many exemptions the scheme becomes unworkable. As we expand the scheme, whether it is to Tower Hamlets or right out to Heathrow, clearly there are more and more residents. Will you still suggest that residents get a 90% discount?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

What about abandoning the Heathrow "

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

You have just told us that your focus is on extending the existing charging zone and that you are proposing not to implement a Heathrow zone until 2006. Can you give an undertaking to the long-suffering residents of Hounslow, who are already suffering blight from the fear of this congestion zone appearing at Heathrow and from the proposal that I understand you have made this week for investigating congestion charging elsewhere in Hounslow? Will you please them very significantly by abandoning both of those proposals, since it is such a long distant prospect?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

I completely support you expanding the zone and would obviously like to see it much further and faster. With the Heathrow scheme I am very concerned that the number of exemptions that have already been proposed will make it unworkable.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Did you say more in the way of exemptions?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

And, presumably, much more sophisticated?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

): If the Government was stupid enough to go ahead with a third runway at Heathrow, and let us hope they do not, have you thought about making a case to Government that a condition should be that BAA would fund the cost of implementing any congestion zone around Heathrow? If the Government do not make that decision, are you hoping to get some funding from BAA and the airlines towards the implementation of a zone?