• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

What is your reaction to the reported quotes on the BBC website and in The Times from Dr al-Qaradawi about the victims of the tsunami as being basically Allah's revenge on people that believe in sex tourism and act in that manner?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Ramesh Kallidai, the General Secretary of the Hindu Council of Britain?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

You are now making it clear on the record that you did not refuse to meet this group?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

From the list of people who are referred to in this document and are signatories to it, I would like to refer to one or two that I know personally. Would you regard Venilal Vaghela (Chairman, Hindu Council) as Islamophobic?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Do any of you recall an occasion?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

I would not have described your staff or colleagues as your `creatures', Mr Mayor, but I might do so in the future. I do understand that you and your office could not function unless you understood one another's minds very well and that those who support you do understand your mind and your objectives. I am sure that you want to have suggestions from them, and perhaps occasionally you do not think their ideas are going in the right direction. When did you last veto a project which came from your staff, and what was it? Has that ever happened?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

I am not going to pursue it any more. So you would not have a problem making it available to the Assembly?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Can it be made available to the Assembly?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

In writing?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Is that a formal delegation?