• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

I understand those difficulties and you know my views on PPP but I still think the plan is somewhat limited and lacks vision in terms of the tube. And it came to light, didn't it, at Mayor's cabinet, that the Thames Gateway, there was additional funding for the increasing capacity on the Jubilee Line of between 45% and 60% and it turned up that, when I asked how that was going to be funded outside the PPP, in fact the Government had popped it into the PPP in another late change to the clause. That's in the Government's interests because...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

I disagree with Victor's thesis that everyone can look in it and see what they want, because I looked in it and I wanted to see lots of ideas that the plan didn't achieve, and I found that the tube was conspicuous by its absence from the whole of the London plan. And so I wondered when the issue of the Tube would be properly addressed in the London plan.

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Bob Neill cited that the plan does aim to create employment opportunities close to where people live and that was at odds with the centralisation of what you see as financial and business areas. Bob Neill: If your going to quote me what I said wast hat what your advisor had said was at odds with what John Ross, the Mayor's adviser, had said. It's the contradiction between the two of them that I was referring to. Nicky Gavron: Can we go back then to what the plan said, and the plan does say that employment opportunities should be close...

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

I certainly will work on that. But important part has also been played in the drawing of this strategy by the options appraisal. And the options appraisal, if you look at that, looks at four options, one of which is completely ludicrous and two of which you are clearly not going to agree, and then it's not a surprise that you've picked the one out of the four that you wanted in the first place. That doesn't seem to be a serious option appraisal. In the second half of that document it makes some very sensible comments about the spatial...

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

We have a sustainability appraisal that doesn't make any attempt to quantify the impact of the plan on any indicators, including the key indicators that the plan sets out of its own measures of success. What we have is a sustainability paper that just checks the language. It's not really a serious sustainability appraisal, is it; surely more work needs to be done on it?

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

Victor Anderson: When you were questioned when you attended the Planning & Social Development Committee about this on 18 July 2002, and Darren Johnson pointed out to you that different people who were involved in drawing up the plan have said very different things about it, you said in reply to him, "The richness of the plan is that people can look in it and find what they want to see". That quotation comes from you. The Mayor: Oh, right, I'd forgotten that. Sorry about that, folks. Victor Anderson: Doesn't that show, --? The Mayor: It was a joke actually...

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

For London, the size and operation of parking zones and other aspects of them should be there to serve people and not the other way around.

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Some very controversial proposals have been put forward in the place of those that have been changed. These proposals had nothing to do with you?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

One accepts the need - as you quite rightly say - for a degree of secrecy about this, but at some stage across the wider political field in London there needs to be some way of explaining what is going on or the assurances that are being given. We have obviously got to be careful in raising these questions and do not want to hype up worries. I actually think London's done quite well and do have a great respect for London's emergency services and their ability to cope, but there is a need at some point for the GLA...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Just on that last point; it is a great pity you do not take a lead on this one. With what is going on out there, it is a real great pity. Given the seriousness with which you have dealt with some of the questions - and then to fail on that one - really begs some questions. Can I just take it a step further? Now, so far as we understand - given what has happened in New York and so on - there have been a number of reports coming out in America about what happened and how...