• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Shall I bring us back to a common enemy in GOL and ask what you can do and we can do to persuade them to come and advocate their position publicly, so that we can scrutinise them? Secondly, what can we - and I put it deliberately as we - do to persuade the Government, now that we have lost the legislative platform of regional assemblies legislation for outside London, to increase the devolution powers to London's government?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Leaving aside the interesting revelation that you do not read the answers that you send out in your name, and leaving aside the irony (which you may agree, perhaps, is an irony that UKIP Members of the Assembly having been elected to abolish this body, in their first act ring-fenced the staffing for your office and the Assembly's office, and made their first contribution by complaining at their lack of staffing levels, would you agree their commitment to slimming down London Government is a bit thinner than maybe even yours and mine is? Secondly, would you perhaps agree that it...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

You mentioned GOL. Why have we got a GOL?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Yes, but at £100,000 worth of taxpayers' money. That is not what I had in mind.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

What about arbitration? Cannot you get somebody to arbitrate between both of you?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Well, should not the decision be that of Westminster Council? I understand that Westminster Council have, in fact, offered a compromise that outside South Africa House would be an appropriate place to put it. Personally, I can think of no more appropriate and ironic place to put it than outside South Africa House, and to pursue it in the courts with Westminster Council seems to be extremely perverse, if not reprehensible.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Would you not agree that spending up to £100,000 of taxpayers' money was not the right thing to do in a dispute between you and Westminster? I have a lot of sympathy for what you are trying to do, and I understand the constraints, but there has got to be a better of resolving your differences than going through the courts using taxpayers' money.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Mayor, would you agree with me that UKIP Members must really get to grips with the fact that they are representing London and should really get out there and just see London, and if Peter Hulme Cross was to walk round Trafalgar Square then he would see that Trafalgar Square is big enough for two Nelsons, and he would then confirm that there is insufficient room for a statue outside South Africa House, because this would create a road safety problem. That is the key thing. There is not enough room on the pathway to take the statue.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

I am very encouraged to hear you talk this morning in such positive terms about the second phase of the East London Line into Clapham Junction. My constituents, for one, will be very pleased with that. I do agree with you that it would be sensible to actually have a stop in Brixton, but if you have difficulty there, because that is going to depend on developers putting in capital monies for the redevelopment, will you hold up the whole of this second phase in getting your deal in Brixton, and therefore, we could wait even longer for a stop...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

You say that it will be a metrorail service, rather than a Tube service, but can you reassure Londoners that it will appear on the Tube map still in the distinctive orange colour, which everyone has come to know?