• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Ken, you made a comment in response to Graham's question about providing a breakdown of the amount as part of the normal course of scrutiny, so can I invite you to give us a breakdown following this meeting to be attached to the Minutes? I just do not want anyone to think this is not a part of scrutiny.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

If I may quickly come back to the issue of an event in Central London because obviously that is part of my constituency. I appreciate that you are saying you do not want to focus too many people in one area. Does that mean that despite the fact that people tend to gravitate towards Trafalgar Square it will be closed like it was last New Year's Eve to try and prevent too much of a gathering there?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

On this side we are very glad you have taken this can?do approach to New Year's Eve. Certainly, many of us were so upset when last year the rest of the world's cities were celebrating New Year while London was in darkness. So well done. But can you assure us that it will not just be focused at adults? I am thinking of the parks in particular. We are not very far from Southwark Park, for example, where there is already a good network of young people. I believe that some of this money should actually be allocated to young...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Can you give us a breakdown of the costs?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

Can you give us a breakdown of how the £800,000 is being spent on this great party?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

It all sounds very exciting. Can we be reassured that there are going to be visual images of London and not visual images of the Mayor of London? Is it just a coincidence that this grand celebration just happens to be in the last New Year's Eve of your Mayoralty?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

I want you to repeat, because it will be a very short answer, what you said before that in relation to this poll that was in The Guardian yesterday which they say your office commissioned, that no penny of GLA resources was spent commissioning it or giving it to The Guardian or giving it any publicity?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

There we are; I have a witness.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

(to Mike Tuffrey) I will second you

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 October 2003

You have said on the record at the Liberal Democrat Conference that you are spending £30,000 a month on polling, which rather seems to give the lie to you saying that there is less than we think.