• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

I actually asked you whether you would pause to see the viability before going on to other phases.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

Well I am not certain that at this stage if you could absolutely predict that there will be a congestion charge because that, of course, still lies with the decision on your budget which the Assembly will come to, so I am not certain that you can predict the outcome of problems on the basis of something which hasn't itself been settled. But if I can just go on to my second supplementary. If you do go ahead with the scheme in Trafalgar Square, would you agree that it would be worth waiting for a decent period of time to...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

In your position now of negotiating with the Government - and I heard your speech yesterday in Bournemouth, very good, very clever, well balanced, you even got some claps from the Tories and the Liberals and Labour - but you seem to have this thing, it may well be because of your history when you were in the Labour Party, or the fact that you were thrown out of the Labour Party, then burying the knife. What I want to know is, is this revenge for when you weren't allowed to stand as a Labour Party member or is it...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

That's actually not the point. The point I am trying to make is: you are now the Mayor of London, we accept the election results. Yesterday in a number of articles you compared this Government and indeed the past Government, well let's deal with this Government, with to the Nazis. You also said that there were aliens in the Treasury. Now you made the comment earlier that somehow this was a comment you had made a long time ago. According to all the newspapers you also did this in an interview yesterday. My point is that we understand your own...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

But would you discuss with the boroughs who are particularly affected by those decisions what the decision might be before you came down as it were on one side or the other?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

Will you support the continued access to the Royal Parks, especially Richmond and Bushey Park?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

Very quickly then. The bottom line is that the Governor got it wrong, in your opinion.

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

I am surprised that you are not disappointed that London is rated two notches below Huntingdonshire. I suppose that there is some endorsement there in your answer to voluntary transfer of housing stock which I found interesting but can I also point out that the Standard and Poor's Report did make reference to above average critical risk. Don't you think that London is losing out and will lose out if there is a delay in resolving how the financing of the two is to progress and the Deputy Prime Minister does not back down with his obsession with the flawed...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

It is always quite clear there is a prospective cost for Londoners not only in terms of the cost of any bond that would have to be issued but also obviously a cost in terms of the uncertainty of the delay in terms of public investment or private investment coming into the Tube. But one other point that the Standard and Poor's Report made was that TfL would not issue bonds directly in its own name. Does that mean that a decision has already been made that if you got permission for bonds that it would be secured directly upon...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 24 May 2000

May we know how far the officers have got and when we might expect an answer?