• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Londoners are going to need quite a lot of convincing though, when the SDS comes out, that we can manage this huge population growth; that we can keep hold of all our green space and actually increase it in some areas and that we won't add to the congestion problems and the public transport overcrowding in central London. That is quite a juggling act. Are you going to be able to pull it off when the SDS comes out?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Could you just give me your understanding of what the affordable housing provision should be on the site in question or remote to that?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

My final point is that actually the solution to this is not only regionally but nationally and will he therefore agree that we need to reform the borrowing rules? National Government needs to reform borrowing rules so we can have parity; that we need to reform the payments in lieu rules so that we can transfer some of these things between boroughs. A whole range of things. Will he, indeed, agree that the 50% guideline is effectively a back door development land tax and, if the public thinks we can extract value from the booming housing market we should do...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

The press release does not answer the question. Could I ask you to answer the question, please?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Point of Order, Chairman. Sorry to interrupt the Mayor. Can I just ask about the procedure, because the Mayor has already issued this answer as a press release at 10.02am, saying he had already answered at MQT. I mean what is the point? I don't want to interrupt procedure. I just want to know, do we set protocols about these questions or what? Because if the Mayor's office is issuing these as press releases before we actually hear them ourselves at the meeting, then something is not quite right and it needs to be looked at.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

What problems do you think your projected population growth figures will have for the provision of affordable housing?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Let me ask then, on Falcon Wharf, which you did mention, which is in the Ward that I used to represent, and where we ended up with actually less affordable housing, unfortunately, as a result of your intervention. Could you send me a briefing on that, about how we actually came to it? Because the affordable housing was off site and not on site.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Thank you very much. I would really like people to put their hands up if they've actually understood that. Assembly colleagues, have you really? Graham Tope, as Chairman of the Finance Committee, with this, "Now you see it, now you don"t" sort of figures that we see on finance papers - and I"m not insulting Peter Martin, because I think he's done a really grand job, especially now that his Deputy Finance Director comes from Wandsworth. But you see, what I'm getting at is the presentation of papers; that in fact I have to ask a question like this, and...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Would Lord Harris accept that whilst welcoming PCSOs there is unease in the boroughs, of all political persuasions, about funding for PCSOs beyond the initial two years; that boroughs are therefore a little reluctant to completely exploit PCSOs if in two years' time they're going to find they're presented with a bill for them.

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Let's cut to the chase. Could you just give us a brief assessment of what the state of the MPS would have been in, if we'd agreed the last two years of the Tory budget proposals? Give us a view.