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

You rightly say that it relies on a lot of partnership working, but I think there is a temptation for you to shift the responsibility somewhat. In your election manifesto, you said you would take a personal lead in ensuring delivery and effective programme of home insulation and other measures to end fuel poverty and the scandal of winter deaths from cold. Do you believe that the work you've done so far equates to taking a personal lead in that way?

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

How much is that costing?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

One of the great attractions in this building is the Piper model, because people like to look and see, find their own homes and buildings they know. There's an equivalent in this area, and that's aerial photographs, which show where energy is leaking and people can identify their own homes on those photographs. Would you look at putting on some exhibitions of those photographs in this building? I think not just to check up on your own home, incidentally, but I think that it would be very attractive, and it brings the message home in a very personal way.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

: I just wanted to clarify that, because that would be an Evening Standard story tomorrow. The real nub of the question is adding to the work that is being built on with the Energy Partnership, would you now support a right to fuel, which is being talked about in many circles, with respect to providing a proper floor, so that people do not fall into fuel poverty. Because it isn't just poverty that's an issue, it's blue rinse poverty people who otherwise could be quite well off, but are not adding access to energy savings.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

Going on to the other point, just to clarify, you are actually paying for the energy work that's going on in your home.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

Yes.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

It's not just the issue of trusting totally, not wishing to particularly intrude on private grief, but I had assumed that Victor Anderson would have been up to scratch with the Mayor's fuel poverty programme. Does this mean that there's a rift?

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

Finally, while we're on Gordon Brown, there are a number of organisations, such Help the Aged, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and so on, who've put together a set of lobbying proposals to Gordon Brown, to introduce a range of fiscal measures to promote energy conservation and tackle fuel poverty. Will you be supporting that campaign?

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

I'll have a look. One of the concerns of the Assembly's scrutiny as well, was that although there was some --focus on fuel poverty, but there wasn't enough on energy conservation generally, and obviously fuel poverty is a really important issue that needs to be tackled. Energy conservation is important across all sectors of society, business, the rich and so on. Everyone can waste energy, and everyone can take steps to promote energy conservation. Will you be taking a much stronger lead on energy conservation, when you do your revised strategy?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

Would one way of giving an indication be to include it in the next draft of the London Plan as one of the ambitions that we have?