• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 23 February 2005

I would like to ask a question about the anti-viral drugs. Why do you feel it has been necessary for London to step in in this way? Is it because Government itself has failed, unlike other European governments, to make this purchase? Do you feel that it is not appropriate to only give such medicines to employees within the GLA family? Do you think it will also be appropriate to provide such medicines to residents? You have a lot of money within your budget to spend; surely you should be spending more than that?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 23 February 2005

I welcome your action on this Tamiflu purchase. It is a great concern to many people, and our own party at Westminster has been urging the Government for some weeks to take the action you are taking at a more local level. It probably has not escaped your notice that the newspaper that has campaigned longest and loudest on this issue and first alerted us all to it shortly after the New Year was of course the Daily Mail. They have been also angrily asking why it is that the Labour Government has been so slow compared to other governments...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 23 February 2005

Answer the question.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 23 February 2005

Have you spoken to the Prime Minister (Tony Blair) over the past few weeks?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 23 February 2005

Can I just ask you to reflect upon that last comment, seriously? Do you regret the words that you used?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 23 February 2005

Are you going to take the Prime Minister's advice to apologise and move on after your comments to the Evening Standard?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

There are not going to be. Okay, fine.

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Thank you, Mr Mayor. I have studied the organisation plan here, and it does tend to look rather confused. Perhaps you can help clarify some of that confusion, because clearly we have a structure that we need to understand, so that we can scrutinise what work is being done. Can you tell me what the ODA board is actually going to do?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Would you not agree with the me that, actually, the approach to take now is to sweep away this bureaucracy and have exactly what you have said: a simple organisation that everyone can understand, so if things go wrong, we know who to look to, rather than it being obscured all over the place?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How does that differ, then, from the Olympic Steering Group?