• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

With the welcome increase in buses of 200 a year for the next 2 years you are, I know, making plans to facilitate new bus garages in a variety of places, particularly for the smaller franchises. Are you aware that right at this minute the increase, not just in bus capacity and buses themselves, but also the extension through night hours is causing an explosion of needed capacity in Archway where there's a leafy residential street hard up against the biggest bus garage in Europe? In terms of the quality of life, while the residents themselves welcome the increase in...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Therefore, by the Mayor, formally?

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

I am told that while the Mayor's away, you are in full power to act as the Mayor if there was a crisis. That's what you have said. Now, we were not told that that was operating.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Press releases are not quite the same thing as a formal written record.

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

I am not talking about the Mayoral Approval Forms

• 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?