• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do you feel we have a role, as civic leaders in London, to play a part in monitoring that? Clearly, it implies that there are people falling through the net, and the fact that that happens is unacceptable.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Can I just say that I support the point that you make about the Assembly picking up this item. Certainly it is something that is in front of me in my role as Chair of the London Health Commission, and I think all the support that this area of work can get, the better. Would you agree with me that this is absolutely not the first time that we have seen initiatives like this, especially initiatives working around community of interest? What we have here is not just the community of Tower Hamlets, but it is communities ' mainly asylum...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

I should emphasise that I am speaking outside of the brief of my group on this issue, which I think I am elected to do from time to time, although, given that I am the Whip, I suppose that is quite serious. The easiest way of asking this question is that we have an initiative on climate change, in which we are blazing a trail in the UK. We have transport initiatives in which we are blazing a trail, in a lot of ways. I think through our economic development powers and through promoting the Olympics, for example, we are...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

[Mike Tuffrey (AM):] From our side, can I warmly welcome the announcement of the CCA ' the vehicle that you are using and, indeed, the corporate participation. I was tempted to observe that it is a pity it has taken until your sixth year in office to do this, but was afraid you would accuse me of being negative, oppositionist, and other terms of endearment, so I will not. [The Mayor:] That is most probably true. [Mike Tuffrey (AM)]: Instead, I would like to focus on looking forward. I notice that the press announcement was actually cast in the future...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Finally, I understand most of the funding for the Climate Change Agency (CCA) will come through the London Development Agency (LDA). Clearly, it will be a big priority on the environment. I just want to be reassured that other smaller projects on the environment are not lost sight of whilst they concentrate their minds on this. I was thinking in my mind of the capacity-building programme that has been designed for training on sustainability for local authorities this financial year.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Is this such an amazing breakthrough that none of the people who responded to your air-cooling competition on the Tube came up with it?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Can I congratulate yourself and Nicky Gavron (Deputy Mayor) on this civic initiative, given that 50% of humanity now lives in cities, and I think it is an important area on which we need to lead on climate change. It is also in keeping with the recent Guardian-ICM poll, which suggested that 43% of the public do want the Prime Minister (Tony Blair) to make an issue about climate change with President (George) Bush next month, as well as the Prime Minister's plans to raise it at the G8 (Group of Eight) Summit. Could you just outline what else you...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Has the municipal company actually been set up, as of now?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do you think the CCA and yourself can play a role in pushing those recommendations forward, if you agree with them?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do we have a time for when that is due to happen?