• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Do you think there is scope for work in the business community?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Can I then ask how this applies in the case of the £400,000 that is going to the GLA for the start of the London Awareness campaign, and in particular, is this going to extend beyond residents - because we've rather been talking in terms of residents - and extend to businesses and business waste, trade refuse?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

And do you have a programme for evaluating the successes?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

So, when you're assessing the bids, you're working to those criteria of the committee?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I entirely understand what you're saying about partnership requiring some give and take. It doesn't always make for the happiest committee, but can I understand - are there published criteria that the boroughs can look to, to understand whether in the next round of bidding they are likely to be successful?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Right, okay, I'm aware of that. How much are you talking to the LDA about future funding, because 2004 is around the corner. SRB runs out. The LDA have made some sort of vague planning and support for it. Are you looking the LDA in the eye and helping to discuss this issue with them?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

There are.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

You talked about the 24-hour service, so will we be seeing more early starters because you have only to be out and about in London at 5.00am to see this army of women, many of them from minority communities, walking the streets of London, trying to work, to get the public services up and going for the rest of the population. So there is a case to actually look at the service available to these workers who are predominantly from some of our most disadvantaged communities. You just have to go out and see. I challenge you to go walking...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Can you give us an assurance that you'll be doing ongoing monitoring about the uptake, especially of women using black cabs because of late night working, given the rise in the fares? Again, this might be a deterrent to them, so will there be monitoring of the use of the service?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Thank you for that and that, without doubt, is a really good programme of activity that you've embarked on in your delivering for women. But you know what I'm going to say - but I would say to you the point that I'm picking up, going across London and meeting with women, is that that is not enough and what they're particularly concerned about is the serious delay that has occurred around the minicab licensing process. Now, that isn't a question that is on the paper, but I think you could start to talk about that given that the figures...