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• Reference: 2010/4250
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

With the new Localism bill making Transport for London operate more like a local authority, is it not time to include Assembly Members on the Board of TfL?

• Reference: 2010/4166
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

You've repeatedly said you want to make London the electric car capital of the world and have held this programme up as some sort of panacea to solve London's air quality problems, and yet you have reduced your contribution by two thirds - down from £20m to just £7million. You were only putting in a third of the funding in the first place. Where's the other £53 million coming from?

• Reference: 2010/4167
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

If you've scaled back your funding on this by two thirds, presumably you have another way of getting our air quality within EU limits. If you've now gone off the idea of electric vehicles to improve air quality - what's your plan B?

• Reference: 2010/4168
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 December 2010

Was there any point in you going to Zurich for the FIFA World Cup draw on the 2nd of December?

• Reference: 2010/3748
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

TfL require PHVs to undergo two MOTs per year, so their vehicle emissions are tested every six months. However, TfL requires black cabs to have their emissions tested to MOT standard just once a year. Can you please explain how this is equitable? In the pursuit of both fairness and improved air quality for London, what do you think should be done to end this discrepancy?

• Reference: 2010/3758
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

In previous answers you advised firstly that TfL has ploughed £1,356,110 into providing electric charging points in London boroughs, but that TfL does not collate how many users are registered to use them. Can you please confirm that you have spent over £1.3 million pounds on a scheme that you have no idea of how many people are usig it and what records you do indeed have of the uptake of the scheme?

• Reference: 2010/3747
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

How do you respond to the recent Economist article which states that: "According to Richard Pike, chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry, replacing all of Britain's cars with subsidised electric cars would cost the taxpayer £150 billion and, with Britain's current fuel mix, cut CO2 emissions from cars by about 2%. For the same money, Britain could replace its entire power-generation stock with solar cells and cut its emissions by a third."

• Reference: 2010/3749
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

How will the Treasury's removal of the LDA funding affect your delivery of environment projects and their outcomes?

• Reference: 2010/3750
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

Would you care to update us on how your plans to make London the 'electric car capital of the world' is coming along? I seem to recall you had promised to "introduce 100,000 electric cars and build 25,000 charging points." Is this still on target?

• Reference: 2010/3751
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 17 October 2010

Do you endorse the actions of the Met Police in arresting the six cleaners during the Papal visit? Do you think this was proportionate and a valid use of powers under The Terrorism Act 2000?