• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

I notice you mentioned that you'd been talking to Faulkner and Rooker and so on. The Government's clearly made a major priority of the issue of affordable housing and devoting resources to that; can you say how much of those resources are likely to come London's way, from your discussions with Government?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

One of the reasons that that funding is needed for transport is because of the huge pressure on commuting into central London, and your plan is very much addressed to the projected increase in jobs in the centre and in inner East London in the city and in the Isle of Dogs. There are many of us who are really concerned about the lack of support for outer London and one of the points that the boroughs made yesterday is that the business services sector incorporates a huge variety of different activities, some large and some small, many of which...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

I'm not sure you've yet answered the question as to how you resolve the fact that one of the plan's author's advisers said one thing and one of the plan's authors says another, can you help me as to another contradiction that arose from our meeting yesterday? That is, that we heard evidence from an all-party delegation from the Association of London Government from the London Boroughs, who asserted that the methodology by which your forecasts of employment growth and employment vocations are arrived at are seriously flawed for a number of specific reasons. Similarly, how do you account for...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Brian Coleman: It's a superb council, that's why. The Mayor: Under Labour leadership for some considerable period of time. Brian Coleman: Now its got an even better one. The Mayor: We'll wait and see whether the jobs continue to come now it's elected a load of nutty right wingers. Brian Coleman: I'm grateful for that compliment.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

The comment which he raised was a joke. Perhaps you may begin to understand that we're getting a little bit tired of assertions repeatedly by you that what you said was a joke, and that being Mayor of London requires rather more than being a stand-up comic. Against that background, would you perhaps accept that the point that Darren Johnson was making was a serious one, namely that the Deputy Mayor's senior advisor that had said that the plan was about creating employment opportunities close to where people live, but that your economic advisor had said that it was not...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

I wouldn't accuse you of lacking in humour, I remember at Budget Committee where we were talking about the objectives I agreed with you, that the objectives read as Mother Pie, you summarised it. It's quite hard to disagree with the objectives which makes the delivery of the objectives all the more important. Would you agree firstly that what's important are the mechanisms for delivery, secondly the cash for delivery, knowing where the resources are going to come from and thirdly, working with the boroughs among other partners, but particularly the boroughs, because they have to incorporate this in their...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

What about the package concept?

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Okay. It can't really play that part in the debate if you don't actually see the document. And I think we also need to see the legal advice that says that that guidance is going to be accompanying it.

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Well I think some of us don't like the way the world is going. Some people voted for you because they thought that you shared that view. But you've referred to the importance of the supplementary planning guidance. I think in particular the supplementary planning guidance on sustainable design and construction is essential to the delivery of the plan, both for good quality urban design and to reduce the impact on the environment of the new housing which is envisaged. So, along with higher density, there has to be a very effective supplementary planning guidance in this area. Can we...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

I think this is a bit of a non-debate actually and I'm very disappointed that Victor and the Greens haven't really set out an alternative Green vision for the SDS. And I make it clear from the Labour side that on the SDS Labour members see ourselves as being broadly supportive - and you may find it surprising from me again - but broadly supportive of the SDS and we want to help you to improve it and make it effective and more responsive to the Londoners' concerns. I suppose a concern I expected Victor to raise was about the...