| Label | Content |
|---|---|
| Meeting: | Plenary on 16 January 2008 |
| Session name: | Plenary on 16/01/2008 between 10:00 and 13:00 |
| Question by: | Tony Arbour |
| Organisation: | City Hall Conservatives |
| Asked of: | Mark Watts (Senior Policy Advisor, GLA) |
Question
Climate Change Action Plan and London's Buildings (Supplementary) [2]
Do you know, I am flabbergasted by this, Deputy Mayor. You have just told us that these low-energy bulbs are in fact a transitional thing, because LED bulbs are going to come in which are going to be efficient, but at the same time your publicity has told us that these light bulbs are going to have a very long life. Clearly it is quite pointless that they should have a long life if something more permanent is going to come along. It is a bit like somebody trying to sell me a Betamax video recorder! The whole thing is nonsense and it does not hang together. It confirms precisely what we on this side are suggesting: that this light bulb campaign was entirely a publicity stunt geared towards re-electing the Mayor.
Answer
The LED technology that the Deputy Mayor refers to is not currently commercially available other than in very small quantities. It is being developed and it is probably going to be widely commercially available within the next decade. Compact fluorescent light (CFL) light bulbs have a lifespan of somewhere between seven and ten years so I think the strategy we have been following fits entirely with what we know about developments within the market at the moment: encouraging Londoners to take up the best available product at the moment.
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