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

Do you agree that if Britain were to go to war in Iraq, particularly without UN backing, it's going to greatly increase the security risks in London, already high? If you do agree, can you tell us what discussions you've had in Government, either within your personal contacts with Number Ten or your discussions with Nick Raynsford, to deal with that situation?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

Would you be more supportive of the Government's position if they prioritised al Qa-eda as the target?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

Should we, as a GLA, be paying for opinion polls on Londoners' opinions on Iraq? Can I ask two other questions? Would your position be more supportive of the Government if they put a higher priority, compared to the Iraqi issue, on concentrating on eradicating terrorism and al Qa-eda? Is there any message that you will want to send to the Muslim community on this issue?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

You might be able to forgive Tony Blair if he did take us into a bloody, unnecessary and very unpopular war but do you think Londoners would?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

You quite rightly gave your wholehearted support to the March and spoke at the rally afterwards. If war did break out would you be supporting peaceful protests in London on the day?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

Londoners and people around the whole country are increasingly feeling that Blair is simply not listening to them. People went out on the March in their millions and yet Tony Blair said almost immediately after that that he wasn't going to listen to them. What can people do now, do you think, to try and make their voices heard?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

There's talk about people coming out on strike for that. I know there are people in this building who would like to walk out in protest; would you be disciplining them if they do that?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

Thank you and thank you for your suggestion that we might jointly approach Capita. I take it then, that if we can find a way by which you could legally disclose information that we've been seeking about performance measures and so on, you would be happy for that to proceed.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

You talked earlier on about making improvements to the technology behind this scheme, perhaps in three years I think was the time scale you mentioned. Is that change built into the contract that you have with Capita now or are you going to have to make payments to them to change the equipment at that time, and will those payments include penalties for discontinuing the use of the current equipment?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

Are you aware that two constituents of mine both applied for blue badge discounts because they have to come up for chemotherapy treatment, one on a daily, one on a weekly basis, in November of last year? Neither received any satisfactory response in advance of the deadline. One was kept on the telephone for 1 hour 40 minutes by Capita operatives and then transferred to Coventry where they waited another 20 minutes to be told that their application couldn't be found. A second had to attempt five separate calls to speak to five separate Capita operatives to be told that...