• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I am very concerned about this issue of redistribution of wealth, particularly as it applies to South London. One example of wasting the wealth of all London is the £22,860 you have granted to CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) to use this building in September. One area where you could invest a little bit further south than Crystal Palace, is Purley Cross. You started the achievement of improving it in Coulsdon, what do you think can be achieved over the next four years at Purley Cross?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

You promised that we would sit down the day after the election, so I hope we can sit down and discuss that. One of the things you did during the election campaign was to comment on the £600,000 bus shelter at Sutton. The Mayor said he was going to ask for the money back from Sutton Council. Was that a realistic comment to make during the election campaign, and does Sutton owe you this money?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I am sure you are aware, Mr Mayor, that Jeremy Bentham (the philosopher and jurist) is encased in glass at the University of London. I wonder whether you would consider, should this museum open, as we hope it will, putting the first gay chair of the London Assembly in a glass case in that museum.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

Have you any ideas about how this could be funded?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I agree. Were you impressed by the emerging cross-party consensus on this during the Mayoral campaign?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

It needs taking up at a senior level in the GLA if it is to be taken forward and also needs to be considered as a serious priority by the Cultural Strategy Group. Will you be having discussions with the Cultural Strategy Group?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I welcome the Mayor's remarks about being a champion for new visitor attractions, and it is that very role that my question relates to. Perhaps the role should not just be about championing new attractions such as a lesbian and gay museum, but also some of the more traditional and older-established visitor attractions. I think you have given support in the past to the Cutty Sark Trust. It is the Mayor's co-ordinating role as a champion and in bringing things together that makes things happen. I would really like the Mayor to expand on that. How can he bring officers...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

As someone who actually represents a part of east London, I can tell you that we do not want your scheme. It would be very unwelcome.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

Do you not think it is odd that a political party that appears to want to expand congestion charging to every city across Britain does not want to see it extended in the largest city by far in the whole country? Is that not a rather odd position to go into an election with?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

You say you are not wedded to a particular boundary at this stage, so why are you only looking westwards? Why not eastwards?