• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Can you tell me when that was reported?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Can I ask you then why, given you've been in this position four times in the last two years, that decision was not press-released, that decision was not indicated to any of the Group Leaders, and in fact that decision was uncovered through an email asking something else? Why weren't Londoners told, why weren't we told, that you had been in that position four times?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Clearly you are not ruling out the possibility that you might resign in order to assist his campaign for re-election?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

And perhaps to the sensible and dispassionate observer, they might think that, might they not?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

So to the casual observer it might be thought that you're the Deputy Mayor in reality, if not in name?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

They report to you, don't they?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

And do you consult the mayoral advisors, such as Mr Ross and Mr O'Neill and Mr Coleman?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

All I am interested in is that because of the delegation that the Mayor has chosen to make, and the way he has chosen to make it, you don't in fact have to do that. You could make the decision without reference to the Deputy Mayor?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

But the decision is made by you?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Is she kept in the frame? That's what I'm interested in.