• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

In that case could you at least take the message to Government, along with all these other messages that we ask you to take, that we are actually having a reduced number of facilities?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Yes, sports participation and health; and one of the things they said to us is that they hoped to get a member of staff to drive through the sports participation and health, but they need a budget to do that and that has to be from the Government, and I was wondering whether you would back them in that bid?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

One of the areas that you can encourage is private sector investment; swimming pools by their very nature lose money, but private sector investors are prepared to do it. However, one of the problems is the interference from your office on planning applications that would have a swimming pool plus other facilities. Are you prepared to relax those arrangements to encourage the development of sports facilities?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

I do not want to go into that, but there is a clear issue here, because it was the interference from your office that prevented that scheme from proceeding and of course is now on ice.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

2012 offers not just an opportunity to increase targets for sports participation but also there is the knock-on effect on the health of Londoners as well. At the Health and Public Services Committee yesterday we had evidence from Dr Sheila Adam (Executive Director, Public Health, North East London Strategic Health Authority) about the 2012 Health Board and the work they are trying to do.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Absolutely. The core GLA's Environment Monitoring Process already commits you to put in place procedures for monitoring timber procurement policies. Why was there a failure and what are you going to do to improve the monitoring so that this does not happen again?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

Well that is useful, we will take you up on that. Are you aware of other occasions where non-FSC certified timber has been used?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

You have rightly received plaudits from Greenpeace over your stance on nuclear power and green energy and I am sure you will from Greenpeace over your stance on polluting vehicles and the Congestion Charge as well. It must be really embarrassing that it took a Greenpeace investigation before you realised that illegal rainforest timber was being used in Trafalgar Square for the hoardings.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

That is very interesting, thank you. The thought occurs that government is happy to use London as a test zone, whether it is for Congestion Charging, low emission zones or indeed borrowing powers, and that we ought to be lobbying to extend that. Can you just tell me in the very limited time that I have left, what particularly you will be pressing on to Sir Michael, in terms of the Lyons Inquiry, what are your priorities for innovative funding mechanisms?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

You are currently missing it by 35.5%, that is actually 380,000 crimes - a dramatic figure - so there is no way, sadly, but there is no way that a few more PCSOs, the very welcome full roll out of Safer Neighbourhood Teams, in less than two years is going to get anywhere near the 50% target. We talk always understandably about police and policing, and of course they have a major role in crime reduction, but they are by no means the only agency that works on crime reduction. When thinking about your strategy for the second part of...