• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

I am not saying who they might but, in principle, do you think that that would be appropriate?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

Would your amendments include putting forward a proposal that the waste authority should be based along the structural lines of London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA)?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

Indeed. Also, I suspect, what happens to Section 106 (legal agreements) and who gets overall say so on that.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

So you will not seeking to overturn that?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

That is all that you will be spending the £80,000 worth of money in terms of lobbying for Members. It will just be to get the single waste authority?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

You do not envisage that the boroughs, which are the closest to the issue of waste, should play a role, as they do in LFEPA?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

Obviously there are proposals flying around the place, nobody quite knows yet whether they will happen or not, but some of the debate at Committee stage on the amendments may well invite evidence provided by witnesses. Is that something you would be pushing for, for witnesses to appear?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

Do you think Sir Robin Wales' (Mayor of the London Borough of Newham) Parks Police is a model force for London?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

Thank you, Mayor. I think it is the view of the Labour Councillors in Lambeth and Southwark that although the wardens did make a good contribution in their time because they preceded the Safer Neighbourhood Teams, the time has come to upgrade the warden schemes into PCSOs. Do you agree it would be more cost effective to have PCSOs who are integrated into Safer Neighbourhood Teams so that there is not a separate office bureaucracy set up for wardens, and that that would be more effective than having disconnected wardens?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

I agree we want to see better services for people in areas suffering from anti-social behaviour. One point I would want to make about the value of some of the wardens, not all of the schemes have been very successful, is that in some instances they provide a very particular need. For example, in Streatham we have some Somalian wardens who have been very helpful in dealing with quite a stressed, deprived and troubled community. They have done a terrific job. Would you agree it would be good if the Metropolitan Police Service could find a way of upgrading, retraining...