• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

The affordable housing average across London is about 14%. What hope do you think you have of delivery if the range is as broad as it is now? To take two examples - Hammersmith and Fulham, pretty much more than half of its new housing in recent years has been affordable, compared to - take another at random - Kensington & Chelsea and Wandsworth, below 10%?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Do I take it, therefore, that the Mayor will be prepared to be flexible in the working of the Plan to make sure that housing is delivered in that broad type of affordable category, rather than demanding too rigid an adherence purely to the social rented sector, which has a need, but which is by no means the majority of the need?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Is the real challenge to recognise that the growing crisis in affordable housing relates to those people or households on incomes of less than, say, £35,000 a year, who find it difficult to rent or buy in London, and who are never going to qualify for social housing. And shouldn't actually a much broader definition of affordable housing, including shared ownership with or without social housing grant, sub-market housing, and other intermediate forms, be the real thrust of affordable housing policy?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I was just wondering what exactly can be done by the Mayor to address inequalities in primary health care provision across London. I am talking about things like healthy living centres and out of hours health centres. Should they not be available to all of Londoners, not just a few?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

You do seem specifically to concentrate on the East.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

It's obvious you're concentrating not on West London, but on the East. So you spend most of your time talking to those who talk about health, rather than to those who actually deliver health care in London.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Can you tell me what meetings you've had with the strategic health authorities, officers or members, to discuss the impact on them of the quality of the housing?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

As you are aware, in urban deprived communities one of the aspects of ill health that is much increased is mental illness. In Lambeth, we've got six times the national average for mental illness. We've got the highest rate of mental illness in the entire world. And the South London Maudsley NHS Trust has been doing some very innovative work on early intervention, trying to get to people in the system, particularly young men, before their problems become too serious. Can you say something about what the GLA is doing in the field of mental health, since it does have...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I'm on the scrutiny too, so I suppose I was saying what extra can one do, except talk and recommend? Is that the limit of it?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Can I just come back and say in the partnerships that you listed, working with the ALG, the Observatory and the others, you didn't list the LDA, but you have just spoken about the LDA. So, would you then agree that the LDA should have issues to do with poverty, deprivation and how you can actually alleviate those circumstances at the top of its agenda?