• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

Well, forgive me for being a little bit sceptical, but it does appear to me, looking at the list of traffic light changes that you have listed for us, that actually almost every single one of them takes place inside the congestion charging zone. So, that does make me feel rather suspicious. Can I ask you, would you be prepared to ask TfL to provide me with a detailed map so that we can plot the time changes for any journey made between say Kings Cross and Parliament Square since you made the permanent changes to so many of the...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

I'm sorry, but it's not acceptable for Londoners to be left in the situation where you are saying, "Well, okay, some things are said privately, other things are said publicly". That is no way to run a city, is it, Mr Livingstone? Frankly, it wasn't just some loose wording given to me or to the press, it was a very detailed conversation and it was quite clear from the minutes taken that Londoners and other people coming to London are already suffering from the effects of traffic light changes that are directly connected to your congestion charging. I am very...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

That was a long answer. I think it must be the first time that a question from the Assembly has produced such a flurry of activity on the eve of Mayoral Question Time. You won't be surprised to hear that I don't find much of it very convincing. I want to try and sort out some of the confusion that seems to be going on here, the confused messages that are coming out. You say here, in your document, that none of the traffic signal changes that have been made are in any way connected to congestion charging and yet...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

The second point I wanted to raise with you earlier was the planning system. Now, you have just mentioned commercial developments. Can you tell us what the implications are of the fact that the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill, published last week, will not include the concept of carrots, but will include new guidance on how to make the planning obligation system of negotiations between planners and developers more transparent and simple. Do we know what that involves and how does that reflect what the Mayor has been lobbying for?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I'm sure that the Member for Barnet and Camden will share my view that we do need exactly as you have been saying, but I am sure he will also be concerned at the circulation of a leaflet I have in front of me, which was circulated during the last local council election. It says, "Barnet Council forces through social housing despite soaring crime rises". It seems to me clearly to link social housing with crime. Does that bother you?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

The affordable housing average across London is about 14%. What hope do you think you have of delivery if the range is as broad as it is now? To take two examples - Hammersmith and Fulham, pretty much more than half of its new housing in recent years has been affordable, compared to - take another at random - Kensington & Chelsea and Wandsworth, below 10%?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Do I take it, therefore, that the Mayor will be prepared to be flexible in the working of the Plan to make sure that housing is delivered in that broad type of affordable category, rather than demanding too rigid an adherence purely to the social rented sector, which has a need, but which is by no means the majority of the need?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Is the real challenge to recognise that the growing crisis in affordable housing relates to those people or households on incomes of less than, say, £35,000 a year, who find it difficult to rent or buy in London, and who are never going to qualify for social housing. And shouldn't actually a much broader definition of affordable housing, including shared ownership with or without social housing grant, sub-market housing, and other intermediate forms, be the real thrust of affordable housing policy?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I was just wondering what exactly can be done by the Mayor to address inequalities in primary health care provision across London. I am talking about things like healthy living centres and out of hours health centres. Should they not be available to all of Londoners, not just a few?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

You do seem specifically to concentrate on the East.