• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

I would like to bring up the question that my newly esteemed colleague, John Biggs, asked and that you ducked earlier. That is when are you going to appoint an environmental adviser because you are already making big decisions on the environment, like the desalination plant, which are frankly idiotic? When are you going to get somebody who knows what they are doing?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Just on this issue of the remaining Mayoral advisers that you have yet to appoint. Is the delay because you have not found the right people and you are still looking or is it because you have found the right people but there are some sort of legal obstacles with their appointment?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

So you are not? You are not going to appoint an environmental adviser?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

But is it a Cabinet? What it says here is, 'End the culture of cronyism at City Hall. First pledge; create a Cabinet for London to assist in running London.' Where is the Cabinet?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Mr Mayor, how do you, in a scale of one to ten, rate the questions you have been asked by the Labour, Liberal Democrats and Green parties?! Could I ask you to very, very quickly do something wrong because they need to ask a question which matters and, as far as I am concerned, the naval gazing from the other parties is an absolute irrelevance to people in London who want to talk about services, want to talk about the environment and not the appointment of an environment adviser.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

When will we be seeing the remaining appointments?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Was it clear, for instance, what the relationship between those people and the London Development Agency was? Is that something you intend to clarify?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

You do not know anybody who knows anything about the environment. That is true is it not?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

You are repeating yourself again. Please do not repeat yourself; it is offensive to us and it takes my time. When are you going to appoint an environmental adviser?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 June 2008

Let us try and bring a bit of common sense back to this because if you listen to the sort of comments we have heard this morning you would think, Mr Mayor, that the people you gather around you still have to prove themselves. The truth is that Londoners will be pleased to know they have all proved themselves already in senior capacities elsewhere and Londoners will be particularly pleased to see that you have senior figures from local government helping you because, regrettably, your predecessor could not find any whom he had not fallen out with to assist him...