• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

Would the implication be that you have to have new schemes that run coterminous with the existing scheme or is the implication that you then have to have a completely different technology if you do want to expand? You might have given birth to something that's so popular and then you can't cope.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

Just to be clear, you are agreeing with me that we could be looking at what, in fact, the Labour group have suggested which is a buffer zone.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

I do want to press that a bit because it's done with PPZs, in fact I've done it myself, and it is an area where communities are divided where somehow the road pattern doesn't make sense. You just extend it a bit and the people inside have the same or similar exemptions to whose inside the boundary. It really is very simple and it's part of your day-to-day system.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

You will expand?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

I think so far, so interesting. I don't know whether your definition of success is managing to turn central London into a ghost town because I do think that probably you and TfL are as surprised as we are about what appears to be the effect. I suspect you've been taken as much by surprise as anybody. I think it isn't outlandish to suggest that a grip around the centre of London, so that you're actually starving it of the ability to conduct its business, is quite serious. Given that on the one hand you say that it's too soon...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

You've got many more notices being issued for enforcement than you originally expected. Do you have the staff in place to do that job properly?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

First, I want to say congratulations on your boldness and I suppose, more than most, I know how unswerving that has been. I also want to congratulate you on the success so far of the introduction of the congestion charge and to reinforce what you said about the curiosity all around the world by mayors. When I went to Johannesburg in the summer, and all the mayors gathered together, the only thing they wanted to question me on was congestion charging. Having just represented you with Mayor Bloomberg on the Terrorism and Tourism Conference, he also wanted to know about...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

Does the human being get involved after someone has written in or do you have a human check before you send a fine out, which I think is what you've said to us before that you wanted to do?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

Do you think that the figures you were basing this on were wrong in the first place, that there's something wrong with your calculations that you could learn for the future?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

I understand yesterday you were quoted as saying that traffic on the North Circular Road appeared to be up to 5% up last week. Will you now admit that your proposed schemes for Henlys Corner and for Bounds Green have to be looked at once again in the light of congestion charging and in the light of this increased traffic on the North Circular?