• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Which leads perfectly into the next supplementary, which is - what do you predict your underspend will be this year?

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

I wanted to talk to you about London Remade, which has got support from SRB until 2004. What plans do you have for supporting that after 2004?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I'm just correcting what you said as across London. The strategy is not clear in the way that the money has been issued. The action plan that you have at the back of the Waste Strategy, it does give priority - I absolutely grant that, but it doesn't really indicate how you're going to be spending the £21 million more effectively. And the way in which the money has been doled out seems to be in conflict with the version that was presented to Committee, about how the money would be spent.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Actually John, that isn't the case, because in the London borough of Wandsworth, it isn't across the whole of the borough and that doesn't extend to housing estates.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Not quite every borough, but yes.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I'm actually pegging back onto Graham Tope's question. Where do you think the £21 million should go? In the better performing boroughs, so that we do better, or across London in a strategic way, which was our hope, or just concentrating on the boroughs that are performing less well?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

The bit that I'm curious about and I think it really comes on from Graham Tope's question right at the beginning, is looking at the way in which the bids are developing, or coming forward, and being distributed, I can't quite see the strategy in it, because actually I will take issue with what Graham was implying, that the better performing boroughs aren't actually getting. I look at the London borough of Wandsworth, which has actually go the highest receipt of any money at all, which was £1.4 million, which isn't even extending its kerbside collection. It's actually just doubling...

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

Just quickly on the wheelie bins. Is it not the question of how large or small the wheelie bins are and that local authorities have tended to invest in wheelie bins that have turned out to be far too big, that people can shove everything in. If instead they had gone for smaller bins it would have created a lot less problems. When they look at replacing bins, as part of the general replacement programme, they need to look at the smaller size in place of the big ones.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

That's of course talks about sensible use of wheelie bins. On the other hand to go around talking about removing all wheelie bins would surely be crack-pot.

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

So you do no evaluation of the success of this project? Do you not even look at the LDA's evaluation?