• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I agree. Were you impressed by the emerging cross-party consensus on this during the Mayoral campaign?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

It needs taking up at a senior level in the GLA if it is to be taken forward and also needs to be considered as a serious priority by the Cultural Strategy Group. Will you be having discussions with the Cultural Strategy Group?

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I welcome the Mayor's remarks about being a champion for new visitor attractions, and it is that very role that my question relates to. Perhaps the role should not just be about championing new attractions such as a lesbian and gay museum, but also some of the more traditional and older-established visitor attractions. I think you have given support in the past to the Cutty Sark Trust. It is the Mayor's co-ordinating role as a champion and in bringing things together that makes things happen. I would really like the Mayor to expand on that. How can he bring officers...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

As someone who actually represents a part of east London, I can tell you that we do not want your scheme. It would be very unwelcome.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

Do you not think it is odd that a political party that appears to want to expand congestion charging to every city across Britain does not want to see it extended in the largest city by far in the whole country? Is that not a rather odd position to go into an election with?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

You say you are not wedded to a particular boundary at this stage, so why are you only looking westwards? Why not eastwards?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

But you always argued that you could not do it on a single issue, and the reason people voted Labour was that they could not vote against the PPP (Public-Private Partnership) through the election. So you use arguments whichever way, do you not?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

I have concerns about not every household getting a copy of your broad sweep consultation.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

When you say you are doing a broad consultation, one of the problems that usually jumps up and actually hits you in the face more than anything else is that you take a view when the public have not expected the consultation to be out. If you transfer that to what you did with the West London Tram, you used the results to swing it in a particular direction. I think that is an issue for London. You may say that it is a broad sweep across the whole of London, but if London is broadly supportive of the extension...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

Without wanting to appear a damp squib, I just find it an incredible cheek of you to arrive here and announce to us the `good news' that you have been allowed to borrow £400 million from your Labour Government. If I remember rightly, you used to go round giving great speeches about the glories of the Greater London Council and how it never borrowed but made it all from revenue. Over the last few weeks you have pushed through a budget in low single figures, lower than you have ever done, by raiding the reserves, raiding the underspend and not...