• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

They'll do everything, as they have in the past, to do your bidding within the London Labour Party, as you now have it totally in your pocket. Are you actually telling me, Ken, that the RMT has said there will not be any pressure for any kind strike over pay, and they are quite prepared to wait for 2006?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

: I assume the Deputy Mayor is in agreement with your figures here, and, therefore, she, in her capacity as the Labour Mayoral candidate will be able to put some pressure on the Government. And I also assume that your candidate for Chairman of London Labour Party, Len Duvall, will presumably be helping you in this pressure on the Labour Government, and indeed we would have some sympathy with you, in terms of putting some pressure on the Labour Government with this fiddle that's going on. But the particular thing I'm interested in is when you said, I think, last...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

So, suddenly now, you can't provide the money it's totally insignificant and no-one wants it, whereas when London Underground had to provide the money, it was a life and death issue, sufficient for you to go around abusing the management there and calling them knuckle heads?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

So, where does this leave what Bob referred to as the Big Easter Present, at the time, for his members? Presumably now he is going to have to wait until Easter 2006. So, does he or any of his drivers have concerns about that?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

You've got Bob Crow on the board of Transport for London. He's actually voted to support the way you're handling this, has he, without any reservations?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

But surely the whole point is all that information about night buses, about congestion charge, about policing, is being delivered through people's doors, in London by other bodies by other means. What we don't surely need is a return to 1980s' municipal socialist newspaper, which most boroughs of whatever political persuasion have scrapped long ago, in the interests of cost saving, and in fact in the interests that all the evidence says the residents never read them anyway.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

I was fascinated by this newspaper. Many thousands of copies will be recycled in Barnet. Particularly the letters page - "Dear Ken". I wonder what's happened to the letter, "Dear Ken, why are you so marvellous" signed Ms N Gavron of Highgate? I don't quite know why that one didn't get in. But I did wonder quite how we select these letters for publication. And are letters critical of the Mayor going to appear in this publication? Or will it just be letters saying, "Dear Ken, you are marvellous." Love every Labour Member in London.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

My house only got one, so I don't know what that says about my part of south London. Although I have to say I know it arrived, because I saw it in our recycling bin. My four-year-old is trained to take all the junk that comes through the door and put it straight in Lambeth's very excellent recycling scheme. The serious question is that, as I understand it, this is only going to 2.9 million households, which is less than the total number in the Greater London area. How have those been selected? What is the targeting strategy?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

I saw splashed all over The Londoner this offer for vouchers for trips to London Zoo. I did ask you some questions about what level of money was being allocated at a previous Mayor's Question Time. Can you confirm that £372,000 is being spent on funding these trips to the Zoo, free vouchers for the Zoo, whilst only £51,000 is only being spent on actual hands-on biodiversity work. I fully admit that trips to the Zoo was one of the 72 pledges within your biodiversity strategy, but to spend £370,000 on one of the proposals, with only another £51,000 for...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

Well, indeed Barnet has completely radically overhauled, since we took over in May, our publication, but what we put through is a genuine public information exercise. And indeed it contains only photographs of two Members of the Council. One was me and one was the leader. Despite pressure from other members to have their photographs in it, all the public relations professional advice is, that you do not shove photos of yourself on the literature through doors, because people just take not a blind bit of notice. And what we have been determined in Barnet, and what I wonder where...