• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

I would not dream of it, Mr Mayor. There was an email yesterday which said that Lee (Lee Jasper, Policy Director of Equalities and Policing, (GLA) and Neale Coleman, Director of Business Planning and Regeneration/Policy Director, Best Value and Partnership, GLA) have advised that the briefing should not be shared with Conservative and Liberal MPs, but perhaps they do not speak for you.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

You have until mid-afternoon to let me know what secrets I am in possession of as Chair of the MPA Finance Committee that your policy directors do not want me to share with my colleagues in Parliament.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

So the instruction is given in your name. As I have to do the briefing this afternoon for Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs because the MPA chair (Len Duvall, AM) is unable or unwilling to do so, please would you tell me now what it is that you do not want me to share, or your policy directors do not want me to share, with the MPs that I am briefing this afternoon.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

The concern that I have is that we know of the success of this particular way forward, and so will this strategy that you have developed enable boroughs like my home borough who have only used it seven times to learn from, say, Barnet, who seem to be well ahead of the game? They have issued 145. Surely there is stuff to be learned.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

): I am surprised The Mayor chose to try and introduce party politics, even into this answer. Can I make clear the Liberal Democrats have not and do not oppose anti?social behaviour orders? Liberal Democrat?run boroughs do use them when they are appropriate. Would The Mayor agree that they are but one measure, and that there are plenty of others that are appropriate, particularly in preventative work? Since Ms Arnold has chosen to mention her home borough of Islington, is he aware that there are currently 220 acceptable behaviour contracts in existence in Islington? Is he aware that, according to...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Can I then ask will it be possible for GoL to actually lead a seminar or conference at the launch of this, because they have done something like this previously when they have launched a major strategy or a document which there can be a lot of learning from.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Can I just follow up and say that why I have raised this is that we really need as long a lead in time as possible. If we can get them before April, that would be great, but it is about recruitment to ensure that we carry on recruiting as many women as possible, as many people from ethnic minority communities, so it would be good to have a statement made as soon as possible when that is going to be brought forward.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

You have said elsewhere that you might be looking to bring the implementation forward of the next tranche. Can you confirm, really, when we will see the next tranche of neighbourhood teams?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Unsurprisingly, I do not think it was quite the package you said it was. I think there were lots of broken promises; it was about what was not in your business plan. Unfortunately, we have fallen short of time and I have not got time to go through the whole list.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Can you confirm that you are still committed to meeting with myself and MPs about issues that we would like to draw to your attention about the East London Line extension, and indeed the Victoria Line?