• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Finally, Mr Mayor, I would, first of all, thank you for that response and, bearing in mind what you have said during that response, I really would ask you to look at Dr Mai's report from the London Metropolitan University. It is called In Whose Name?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

One of the other success stories in terms of the project in Waltham Forest has not just been the work that the police has done but the complementary programme that has been run by the local authority itself in terms of working with gang members. You accept the importance of the complementary work in the borough?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Good. That is very welcome because Operation Connect, particularly in Waltham Forest, has done some really, really good work in terms of getting young people in gangs out of gangs and given them an exit strategy. That is extremely useful. I am just looking at the budget figures that you have got though. Currently it is funded by the Metropolitan Police Service with £2.7 million. That is for five boroughs. You are anticipating rolling it out to 14 boroughs, yet the budget is only going up to £2.9 million. Is that going to be enough?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

That is not the boroughs. This is a straight question. I really want to know if there is - just as there is a Government transition fund for families - a Government transition fund for boroughs because boroughs are going to lack the infrastructure and they need help as well? It is a straight question.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Tony Arbour (AM): -- that the Liberal group on this Assembly is acting as the uncritical mouthpiece for Thames Water and its route for the sewer? Do you not find it odd that any political party finds it strange that when a monopoly proposes a scheme in which it has been able to expend many millions of pounds working up that scheme, that local authorites representing millions of people who are going to be affected by that scheme should not commission a report to look into alternatives? Do you not, further, find it odd, Mr Mayor, that, because of that...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Good. You have been firmly on the record so I am pleased to see no back sliding. What do you make of comments made just a couple of weeks ago by the Leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council that, 'There is no need for the super sewer in its current form at all'?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

We are agreeing famously so let's carry on. Given the cost of delays - I have got the statistics here. This has been debated about for well more than a decade. The cost of the scheme simply goes up the longer we delay, from £2 billion to £3.6 billion now to £4 billion, and the price on Londoners' bills from £40 to £60 to now possibly up to £80 a year. Given that delay simply costs Londoners more is it not all the more amazing that taxpayers' money is being used to advance arguments to delay still further and thus...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Yes. There is a suggestion that if it is done through them it puts up the cost. The final point that I hope we can agree on is the use of the river because clearly this is going to be a major construction project and if lorries on roads are used to transport everything in and out, and particularly the waste out, that is going to add to the impact on Londoners. Will you do everything in your power to ensure that particularly the spoil is carried away by the river so that we are making best use of this...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Notwithstanding Mr Arbour's comments about Barn Elms will you take this opportunity to reiterate your opposition to the re-opening of the consideration for an excavation site, Carnwath Road in Fulham, and the devestating --

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 November 2011

Good. Could you then join with me in saying that what we actually need to do is not argue about the principle of the thing but now turn our minds - obviously the route consultation is still carrying on so that must be gone through but we need to focus from here on how this is funded and how the project is actually delivered and whether Thames Water is best placed to deliver it or whether we need some sort of special purpose vehicle that can both raise the money cheaply from the private sector and get the job done...