• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You just talked about having rows with the supermarkets. Do you envisage having attempted constructive discussions with the supermarkets about encouraging more local production? I can remember once being in Marks & Spencer's and hearing a manager saying, `I do not know why these strawberries are not going' and I had been listening - because it is leafy Richmond and they are aware of these things - I had been listening to shoppers saying, `I cannot buy those, they have just been flown in from the US, where are the English ones?' It is something about encouraging supermarkets to pick...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

It is really harking back to the point that has been made about runway expansion earlier. Just to say that in the light of consultation responses to the Further Alterations to the London Plan and to bring it in line with your Climate Change Action Plan, you are proposing to amend your policy on runway expansion in order for that to be a policy of no further runway expansion. I thought that might be helpful. This will be submitted in a statement.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

This Climate Change Adaptation Mitigation Strategy. Is that going to deal with indirect emissions?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You will join me in raising this with Sir Ian Blair?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

I do hope that part of this customer focus will end up in having much better response times to telephone calls. The Liberal Democrats on the Assembly have just done a survey and we phoned every police station in London, all 141 of them. I know that you will be as concerned as I am to find that only 50% of them answered the phone, and the other 50% did not. So I have a real concern about this. In two of the boroughs; Hammersmith and Fulham and Merton, we did not get through to one single police station. Are...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

It would take a few months.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You will know that the BBC has dubbed this whole thing `Ken-Air' and has shown the extent of the increase. I know you take a lot of advice from Jenny [Jones] on a whole range of matters. Can I impress upon you her suggestion that next time you want to go to Beijing, you should take the train! Can I suggest you take John Ross with you, and as you go across Siberia you can reflect on the days before the global capitalists took over how much better it was when the local Soviet would arm the people's militia I...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

From our side we want you and London to have proper engagement. Why is it that the cost of individual trips is going up? Two years ago the average cost per trip was £500, last year it was £1,000, in the first three quarters of this year it is £2,000. Is it not the truth that you are taking more and more people on these trips?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

It does not just make me happy, it makes the tax payers of London happy, because two years ago you were spending about £30,000 a year on this, last year it went up to £100,000, this current year it will be £300,000. That is a huge increase over two or three years, which is not reflected in any kind of strategic change in London's role in the world economy. Is it not the fact that you have lost control in this area and you and your staff are now taking off on these trips without a proper plan?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Thank you. You will know we had an entertaining, although perhaps not totally enlightening, session with Simon [Fletcher] and John [Ross] last week. I wanted to ask the question to check that there was indeed a strategy, because is it not true that until we started asking questions you and your staff did not actually know the extent of spending that was going on on overseas visits and international relations generally?