• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

What concerns have the boroughs expressed?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

So the transport costs will be more expensive. What about the administration costs?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Are you saying that the transport costs will be more expensive?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Indeed and looking at it from the point of view of residents, not just of Bexley, but all over London, what improvement will they actually see from there being a single London waste authority? What difference would it make to any of their services, apart from their council tax bill?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I suspect local residents wouldn't see the decision as being any better if it was a London decision than a Western Riverside one.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

So are you saying that a London-wide waste authority would have come to a different decision about the Bexley incinerator?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Which is most likely? Is the Secretary of State amenable to making legislative changes, or will we need to do it ourselves?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

What worries me is, I'm very concerned for borough commanders as well, because boroughs differ so widely in the policing challenges, and it seems to me that when there is some creativity in the borough commanders' development in their policing objectives, then they're quite often squashed - and I know we've got a question coming up later about Commander Paddick and the cannabis initiative in Lambeth. But it does seem to me it is actually extremely difficult for borough commanders to be creative about the problems they face.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Given your closeness to the preparation of that gracious speech, do you expect those directions to be targeting the criminal, rather than the crime, or do you expect it to impose yet more statistics, which the Home Office can fiddle?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I have a feeling we won't get to the question to which this supplementary will be perhaps a little more appropriately targeted, but it does fit with this as well. I attended last week a meeting of the Covent Garden Community Association, where there were about 400 residents present. And they have the good fortune of being in a very lively part of London, and the misfortune of the problems that brings. And they welcome the support of their borough commanders, but they span two borough areas. And I'm wondering whether you think the relationship is quite right where, in...