• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

You have been seeking co-operation for quite some time now, have you not? You do not seem to be making a lot of progress, which is regrettable. There are, as you know, about 26,000 wheelchair users who are in need of accessible housing. How many of these properties do you think you are going to be able to deliver per year when you take over responsibility for the London Housing Board?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Why not?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Perhaps we should have picked it up earlier. Can I just ask you about the London Accessible Housing Register? When is it going to be available, and can you confirm that information is going to be made available to potential landlords about security needs of disabled people? The police have said on a number of occasions that, in some boroughs, people with obvious signs of disability, like wheelchair ramps outside the houses, are almost sitting ducks for gangs of people burgling. There really needs to be special security measures put in, when there are wheelchair ramps put outside the houses...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Do you think ten per cent is enough, given the fact that there are 26,000 that need to be housed?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Can I just be clear? When you take over responsibility for the London Housing Board, you are going to put in a mechanism to monitor the number of properties that are going to be wheelchair accessible, and you are going to make this a priority?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Why not?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Let us hope. Tube Lines is reporting that it has had a 43 per cent increase in the waste paper that they are having to take off their Tube trains as a result of this explosion and they are only one third of the network. Metronet has apparently not yet put[newspaper recycling] in place, despite promising -

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Whilst we are talking about Associated Newspapers and News International, I think the thing that has really happened with newspapers is that they have actually got bulkier. There are all these supplements and this, that and the other. I am not sure whether we can ask newspapers, if they are going to talk about recycling and what should be done, to keep their size down and not give us all the supplements that we end up binning straightaway when we get them.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

A lot of this newsprint, which is collected for recycling, finds its way to the Far East, to China, to Malaysia, to Indonesia, where they apparently cope with it. We do not seem to be able to cope with it. What is your feeling about all this waste that we collect, and are supposed to be recycling, actually is recycled in the Far East, and not here?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Now, in TfL's environment report last year, there was a commitment that there would be newspaper recycling network-wide. My information is that is not happening because of Metronet. Can I ask what you can do or will do to put pressure on Metronet to fulfil that commitment?