• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

On the single waste authority, would you be prepared to seek out common ground with the Assembly? There may be some point between the TfL model and the LFEPA model that may be acceptable to both sides, and you would be in a much stronger position to fight for a single waste authority if you had the support of the Assembly behind you.

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

The key is whether that 106 stays with the borough where the development is taking place is it not?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

It was never flagged up with the ministers, and it will not have sufficient weight and prominence to get the fundamental changes in attitude and behaviour that we need at every level; government, corporate and personal.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

The point is it was tucked away, and we need to have the powers that flow from it. I would want you, Mayor, to back the Assembly, to say that the authority should be flagged up at the beginning of the section which has powers, and we should ask that the authority should have the powers to do anything which it considers will further its duty with respect to climate change and will further any one or more of its principal purposes. Then we will be endorsing what Stern is saying that it is something which is economic and social...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

I shall happily take that response away.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

It is more symbolic. It is more where it is actually. I believe that, together, we could have a go at that.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

Madam Deputy Mayor, on a point of order. Unfortunately I do not think we did agree it unanimously, I think the One London Group were opposed to that if my memory serves me right.

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

Can I move you on to some other amendments? It has been brought to our attention - and I agree this is speculation at the moment - that the Government is likely to accept the amendment proposed by London Councils that would give you call in powers at the end of a planning procedure for strategic developments, but a call in power only. Would that be something you would want to amend again?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 13 December 2006

Can I come on to a procedural point where I think we might be in agreement? Jack Straw MP, earlier in the month, appeared to hold open the prospect of using the new powers that there are in public bill committees to hear oral evidence, which might be an advantage both from your point of view, the Assembly's, and the boroughs'. I was rather disappointed last night, in his winding up speech in the Commons, to hear the Minister apparently ruling that out. Have you made any representations to the Government specifically on that? Will you do as a final...

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

Just to reiterate, your proactive interest is entirely based around getting a single waste authority?