• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

To carry on with this theme that John [Biggs] has addressed, my particular area of concern is about women's safety. In May, I asked you a question about women's safety, in terms of their ability to take up employment in London. You said, if I produced the evidence, you would look at it. I have delivered the report to your office and what I am asking is that when we meet, you do have some solutions from TfL that we can go back to the health organisations, particularly nurses across London. They are saying that they feel unsafe on the...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

There was some good stuff in the LGA report on allotments and also a welcome commitment in The Bio-Diversity Strategy as well. Did you realise that waiting lists for allotments in some boroughs can be up to eight years and, given the move towards higher densities, it's going to be even more vital that we have allotments, so there'll be even more demand for them? What action do you propose, specifically, to try and reduce waiting lists on allotments around London?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Mr Mayor, is that not a bit late after the opening of a brand new building, when we do have requirements for access for the disabled and, indeed, you have built a career over 30 years on minority issues? And yet here, in this brand new building, when you could have fulfilled that promise, you have utterly failed?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Mr Mayor, you must be very proud of this building and how it is, as Her Majesty described it yesterday, "open and accessible". Are you very proud of it? The Mayor: I am indeed. Richard Barnes: Can I ask, then, why the disabled have only access here through the loading bay?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Mr Chair, it is a point that you have already covered about the questioning, but I understand there was a User Group about this building. It was a question to you, Chair, to investigate this. My view, as I have been told from some of my questions about disability access, is that there is access to the building. I think people should come in through the front entrance, not through the back or through any lifts in the back room, and I just want to be clear about that.

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

Can I add that if Labour do not choose Nicky Gavron as their candidate and chooses instead Trevor Phillips or some other people, would you then consider putting up Assembly candidates?

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

Yesterday's rejection by the Labour Party has upset you somewhat, you are concerned about old press cuttings proving some kind of conspiracy. What I really want to know is why you have decided to back the millionairess from Highgate as the Labour Candidate before we know which of the other labour candidates are available and whether you may well go further than that and put up Assembly Candidates for Ken Livingstone when it comes to the election?

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

I find that very helpful, because what you are saying is, clearly, that you are not disagreeing that inevitably it would be a matter of public interest, where people's interests may lie. Your concern is very particularly about the use of GLA resources, and you are placing on the record your concern that GLA resources should not be used for partisan or party political factions, particularly if they are used to undermine the GLA within itself.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

You have just expressed your satisfaction with the result of the Heron Tower inquiry, and you went on to say that it means that similar developments will be allowed. Will you accept that it is the principle in London, as, indeed, everywhere else in the country, that each separate application is dealt with on its own individual merits, and that you do not see that this decision, in effect, is a blanket acceptance that your Tall Tower policy will be acceptable?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 18 September 2002

Mr Mayor, can I ask you a question about two items in your report? The first is on your report about the Equality of the Black Public Sector Services Conference, on page 10 of your report. This was an excellent conference. I was there myself, and what I do not get from your report is whether this is a one-off event, given that at this conference the expectation of a number of people, including myself, was raised to a point that this would be the start of some programme of activity. So I would like your confirmation as to what...