• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 28 February 2001

Would you agree that there is a real danger, when we talk in some of these jargon phrases, that they mean different things to different people, and are used in different contexts? Would you support working with the Assembly to make sure that we have one definition as far as we are concerned of what "World City" means?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 28 February 2001

So, with inflation now down to 1.8%, you will still be able to stick with that?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 28 February 2001

So the statement in your manifesto still stands?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

I think some people are finding this kind of fluid situation rather tricky to deal with. Are mini cabs in or out, because one minute we hear from you that they're possibly in, then they're ruled out again, then you say you are minded to consider them all over again and then we heard from Derek Turner in July that actually he was now going to rule them out again. So where are we on the mini cabs?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

If I could turn your attention, Mr Livingstone, towards exemptions? I think a lot of people are a bit up in the air on this one. We don't really know where we are. Is the list of exemptions that you published with your Transport Strategy the final version or are there still further exemptions to be considered and are you going to announce those soon?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

What about spending some of the congestion charging money raised on more services. It's not a matter of more services in outer London. Not just the same service being better, but new services. There are not enough buses going along the roads. There are not enough routes.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

I have two related points leading to questions. One, picking up on John Biggs' point about the North Circular Road, particularly that section of the North Circular which is in Enfield and in my constituency. The congestion there in outer London is growing at a much faster rate than in central London. I'm not advocating a congestion charge for that area, but what I am advocating is that some thought should be given by yourself about how you are going to use the money raised from congestion charging in Central London because 37% of London households have no access to...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

I think that demonstrates a real detachment from the reality of administering it. I think that sets a huge task for the officers in your Congestion Charging Unit about how on earth you go about determining whether someone is a relative or even maybe not a relative, what about an elderly person that you've befriended? People will start befriending elderly people all over the place. Maybe that is Ken Livingstone's adopt a granny and get off the charge, scheme. I just think that it would be much simpler and easy to introduce very quickly. You could very simply take into...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

I'm going to add something to what I was going to say because I think your comments on parental choice in schools demonstrates an incredible lack of understanding of the issue and this relates to the point I want to raise about what happens to local residents who live just outside the zone and, for very good reasons, will often have to use their car to cross the boundary between the hours of seven and seven and that does include some people who do choose to use their car for the school run " not because they actually want to...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

My main question is, you have said, right, left and centre 200 extra buses. We've asked for the evidence of 200 extra buses. Reading the document you still haven't provided us with that evidence. So perhaps you could now downgrade your press statements and say exactly the number of buses you are going to be providing.