• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

You mentioned the London Plan. Have any of your major strategies gone out with things in them that you disagree with?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

What authority do your policy directors have to respond to issues without reference to yourself?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

What mechanism do you have, therefore, to make sure you discharge your responsibility for the content of The Londoner in a proper fashion?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

I understand that. Perhaps you could help us, then. Who in your office has the authority to sign off letters, publications, or strategies on your behalf that you do not have the chance to go through in detail yourself?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

I quite understand. I do not want to get stuck in minutiae, but it might be a bit troubling to Londoners to think that there are a number of things going out from the Mayor's office that the Mayor does not say he would put differently, but says he completely disagrees with.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

That is the only one that comes to mind is it?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

You said at the last Question Time that `Sometimes things go out I completely disagree with.- To say that very specific comment, you must have had something in mind. Can you tell us?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Final go, let me rephrase it: which members of staff in your office are responsible for drawing up the content of The Londoner to put to you?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Which officers within your office are responsible for the content of The Londoner?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Who are the staff who are responsible for drawing up the content of The Londoner?