• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

So, you're now saying that you're moving from 28,000 units to fewer than 20,000?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

So, what is your annual affordable housing target for London?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

Thank you and we await Friday. Can I ask you just to clear up one confusion for us then today? In November 2000 the Housing Commission, whose conclusions you endorsed, said that we needed 43,000 new housing units a year in London, of which 28,000 should be affordable. By last time we met, 22 May, your press releases were saying you had a target of 19,000 - I don't know where that number came from - and last week your housing advisor of the House of Commons issued a press release talking about 11,200 new affordable homes a year. Just...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

Following your comment about the Mayor of Moscow, may I take it from that that you're committed to extending home ownership in London and I refer in one of my other questions to you, to what prospects you're taking on that? What steps are you taking in order to deliver affordable housing rather than just relying upon government making more funding available? What steps do you propose to take to use your leverage, as Mayor, to develop significantly the intermediate sector through perhaps pushing for the adoption of the type of imaginative rent to mortgage shared ownership schemes that we...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

Just on that last point, in today's new `Ken Hating Conservative Mayor Supporting Evening Standard" they do state that bus operators in London have a concern that the traffic light modifications that you are not in control of and are not your responsibility are going to cause them difficulty in actually achieving their targets because you're slowing them down along with the rest of the traffic. Are you going to make any allowances for that in your relationship with the bus companies and the timetables that you set?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

With the welcome increase in buses of 200 a year for the next 2 years you are, I know, making plans to facilitate new bus garages in a variety of places, particularly for the smaller franchises. Are you aware that right at this minute the increase, not just in bus capacity and buses themselves, but also the extension through night hours is causing an explosion of needed capacity in Archway where there's a leafy residential street hard up against the biggest bus garage in Europe? In terms of the quality of life, while the residents themselves welcome the increase in...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Therefore, by the Mayor, formally?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

I am told that while the Mayor's away, you are in full power to act as the Mayor if there was a crisis. That's what you have said. Now, we were not told that that was operating.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Press releases are not quite the same thing as a formal written record.

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

I am not talking about the Mayoral Approval Forms