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Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [20]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
Surely Londoners are entitled to know who your team is?

Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [19]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
You also indicated that they have the authority to act on your behalf and push your policies forward.

Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [18]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
Nobody is interested in people's private lives; what we are asking is a question of transparency and accountability. If people are being paid significant salaries and taking very important decisions on your behalf, is there any problem in having just their CVs being made available to Londoners?

Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [17]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
I think it is a different issue because you often draw a comparison with what happens in New York. I suspect the Mayor's (Michael Bloomberg) deputies and his advisers ' the Peter Powers (former First Deputy Mayor, New York City) and others of this world ' are high-profile and well-known figures and we know where they came from. How do we know where your advisers come from?

Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [16]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
Would you be prepared to make public the CVs of all the officers that you have appointed under section 67 of the Act?

Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [15]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
Of course, as you have already indicated, from a day-to-day point of view, your senior advisers ' I used that term generically ' have authority to speak and act on your behalf.

Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [14]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
How does their manager know what instructions to give for carrying out the Mayor's wishes?

Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [13]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
Do you give instructions to those members of staff?

Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [12]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
They are working for her and not for you.

Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [11]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
I am therefore intrigued that of the 45 members of staff who work for you, as listed in the GLA intranet, not one of them has the word `transport' in their job description. All of them appear to relate to the public affairs side of the brief. How does that come about?
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