• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Around £6 billion. So, in fact, it's less than the £7 billion that you condemned the Thatcher Government for cutting investment to in the answer to your last question.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I absolutely agree with your analysis and I think all political parties should recognise the lack of attention to affordable housing - we all talk about education and I think it affects all political parties. We do have a Mayor who is supposedly not in a political party, and my whole point is he should be leading the scale of debate on affordable housing to shift the national debate in the direction you're implying. That's for him and not for you. Roger Evans: You made much of the investment pre-1979 in social housing at £11 billion to £12 billion. I...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Sticking with the money, when you came with Duncan Barrie to the Economic and Social Development Committee, we examined this issue and what was said then was, and I quote, "In general terms, we are looking for an increase in investment for our total programme from public subsidy in the realm of two to three times the current level if we are to meet the full housing needs backlog over ten years". Welcome though the increases have been, we are nowhere near a doubling or trebling of the amount of public subsidy, which is the level that we need. What...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Do you know exactly how much?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Thank you for that reply. You will be aware that I have been pushing the Mayor because of this huge gap between the needs, on the demand side of the equation, and the supply, even on fairly optimistic assumptions, I have been pushing the Mayor on that. And his response could be typified by, "Well, I"m doing what I can'. And I've been saying that's not good enough, he should be lobbying hard on behalf of London. You're right on the money. Some of it is coming through. Can I just pick you up on the Challenge Fund on how...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

To be fair, Neale, I yet haven't seen the Labour Assembly Member's exposure. So, presumably we are waiting for it to come

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

So, therefore, the Labour Assembly Member's attempt to expose Tory resistance to achieving the affordable homes target, set out in the draft London Plan, as in the Labour Group press release in advance of this meeting, is inaccurate, would one say? 'Labour Assembly Members will expose Tory resistance to achieving the affordable homes target set out in the draft London Plan'. So, what you're indicating is there hasn't been resistance, other than, I suppose, every borough's natural desire to consult its own residents about what is practical in its own area. And not every borough, I presume, naturally and quite...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

Mr Mayor, can I congratulate you on your sartorial elegance today! I was unaware that today was the launch of your re-election campaign. But somebody dressed as you are, can I invite you to address London to apologise to the people of West London for ignoring them?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

I would ask the Mayor again, will he ask his advisor to produce a full and complete paper on his vision of the current status of manufacturing and confirm in this wide sweep that he's told us about, because that is not what he was saying in April.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 June 2002

Can you ask John Ross to produce a full and complete paper that he could share with members about the current and future vision that you have regarding this key area? The other thing, will you also allow the Assembly Members and Londoners to be able to judge for themselves what you're doing in this area by giving us access to minutes of the Policy and Integration meeting that you chair and also the meetings that are taking place around the GLA economics group. I don't know whether that's met yet, but it would be good, I think, for everybody...