• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Can I remind you that the staff you requested were for implementing the Strategy, not drafting it, but have you managed to draft it yet? When is it going to be published, what's your latest deadline for this?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

On the questions I have asked today, we have put these questions to Transport for London already in detail and in writing. They do not answer. So, if you don't answer and they don't answer, how can we hold you to account for what is happening in London?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Chair, I am even more tempted to debate these happy days when Ken was young with him but can I ask you, Ken, as I have on a number of occasions over the last two years, what's happened to the Children and Young Persons' Strategy which we've been promised for two years?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Given that you also pledged in your manifesto, "I will introduce the most open style of government ever seen in the UK", a laudable pledge, it makes it very difficult for us and Londoners to keep track in an open way if not just commitments magically disappear but the deadlines that you set magically move. Of the 46 exceptions, as they are euphemistically called, that went to Budget Committee last week, over 30 of them have actually had revised dates so that that great figure that you gave us a moment ago of targets met, is actually targets met with...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Can you explain why it's completely dropped out of the performance monitoring process, despite it being a manifesto pledge and a key priority in last year's report? It's not there in that bundle of papers you presumably have in front of you.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

I was hoping, optimistically, that you would either give us a long list of the 27, which I could read out, although I'm supposed to be asking the questions, or assure us that in the five days left you will get round to doing them. One of the difficulties of keeping tabs on what you are up to is the disappearing commitment. Do you recall saying, "I will instigate a Londonwide programme of crime mapping?" That was in your manifesto. It showed up in the Business Plan monitoring report earlier last year and, indeed, it showed up in here, your...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

This is a new form of government that we have here, mixing the political and the executive. Are you entirely confident that the procedures that we have in operation put enough checks and balances in place to ensure that things that you and your advisers might wish to do are properly checked out?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

In short, you've generally just accepted them?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Can you tell me which those occasions were?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

How many have you sought additional information about, either at the stage at which you're about to sign it or before then? Have you ever done that?