• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

You made a public statement, I think it was a month or so ago, saying that if you were Mayor you would take a more radical approach on waste and recycling than the current Mayor. If that's the case, what changes would you like to see made to the Waste Strategy to make it a more radical vision?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Can I ask Nicky and Victor for their views as well on this?

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

And how much have you received?

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

Would you agree that there is an opportunity - where the regional assemblies outside London have greater powers than we do - to insert "and London" as the bill goes through parliament? What is good enough for outside London is certainly good enough for London! Whether we can take a lead in doing that is the first issue. My second question is, would you agree that now we're two years in and we can start to learn some of the lessons as to what is and isn't working, shouldn't we be sharing that with Parliamentary colleagues when the White Paper...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

You have said that you have an expectation that somewhere down the line, greater powers will gradually accrue to you. What do you think about increasing the powers of the Assembly, alongside those of the London Mayor? However much people like Lynne Featherstone may grease up to you on subjects to do with Westminster and the judicial review, nevertheless, when she presented you with her considered thoughts as Chairman of the Committee on your congestion charge - which were in the main rather critical - you basically told her to go and take a running jump. Of course, you are...

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

So, it's just words then, really, is it?

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

Can you envisage yourself turning down a contract because of the size of wheeled bins?

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

Well, either you think that wheeled bins are a bad thing and you're going to do something about it, or you're going to use them in a positive way, to help to improve people's recycling rates. I can think of several ways that you might actually modify a bin scheme to do that.

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

It's all very well talking about recycling. That's obviously one part of it, but clearly buying recycled goods is the key thing. And the Green Procurement Code is something that I think we would all welcome. That was launched in March. Can I ask how many boroughs and how many companies have currently signed up to that?

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

Can I ask, did the London borough of Sutton put in a bid for any of this money?