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

We're not talking about demolishing bridges --

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

In the consultation on the Thames Gateway road river crossing, will you be open about the fact that it's a six-lane dual carriageway, a major strategic road, that's being proposed and not just a local link?

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

Staying with the Cultural Strategy, what do you expect to learn from the consultation part of this process and what issues are you prepared to change your mind on if the consultation demonstrates that that's what you should do?

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

That was an instance, in fact, when you decided not to go with the advice you were getting from an officer. Can I ask you whether you make a distinction between consultation and information? It seems to me that you spend quite a lot of time and money, not least the £100,000 you're going to spend to launch the long-awaited Cultural Strategy, which is really, let's be polite and call it information, although some would call it propaganda. What I am less clear about is what you learn from the consultation part of that process.

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

I would have thought, Mr Mayor, with respect, that all Assembly Members - especially those of us with constituencies who regularly have to deal with a lot of bus issues and we have, I think, a productive relationship with TfL in many cases - have experience of the consultation, or sometimes lack of it, which would be very valuable and I would have thought would have informed the toolkit.

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

So, it's one rule for one Assembly Member and another for others, is it?

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

This was at a meeting on 15 January. I don't think it's appropriate to name the officer; the point was that he was not given the chance to see a draft of that document.

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

That's certainly an impressive list of documents sent out, documents received but what we're really interested in, and I hope that you are, is outcomes. First of all, you have a number of one-off events on various strategies. What's been the mechanism for following up and letting people know what the outcome of those events has been?

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

There are many positive ideas and I am happy to meet with you if you will agree, on a separate occasion, to run through them with you.

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

It is rather long but if you would like to have a meeting with myself and John Biggs and we can go through that because there are some very helpful and good things for you to aim for.