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• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Is the Mayor's policy of lengthening the red phases on traffic lights all over London a healthy thing to do or not?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

On the same line of questioning, on this cross-cutting theme, do you not think that an approach which increases the emissions from idling car engines increases stress, increases road rage and slows down emergency vehicles, such as ambulances responding to incidents, might actually be harmful to the health of Londoners, despite the assertions of biased members of the Green Party.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Around £6 billion. So, in fact, it's less than the £7 billion that you condemned the Thatcher Government for cutting investment to in the answer to your last question.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Don't worry, I won't quote you or misquote you. Obviously with new housing comes a requirement for infrastructure - hospitals, fire stations, police station, ambulance stations, schools - how successful have you been in convincing the Government of the need for these additional capital projects?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I find your answers very satisfactory on the broad issue of open space use and the way it's being treated through the Mayor's policies. Where I think there is a troublesome area which has come up again and again in referrals to the Mayor, is where there are uses ancillary to housing, be it education or health, where local authorities find themselves driven to - in the scrappy process of finding bits of land that they can put new schools on or new health facilities which need to support new housing - they find they are tempted to snap away...