• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 September 2001

I would like to add my voice to everything that has been said. Later on today, I shall be meeting a group of black women whose concerns are about their families, here in London, in the United Kingdom generally, in New York and around the world. The group is part of the diaspora of black women - African, Muslim and Christian - and they will meet me for support and to see how they can be of support if, at any time in the future, their communities suffer attack. Our words and behaviour here today reflect the fact that politicians...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 19 September 2001

I think it is the RMT and Londoners who need your help, Mr Mayor, to avoid a strike.

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 19 September 2001

My question is on key engagements. I refer to 24 July, when you met Aslef and the RMT, and to 14 August, when you met John Monks of the TUC. Was it at those meetings that you decided to support the RMT side in the proposed deal on the London Underground for a 4% pay rise, which you so eloquently explained to me two weeks ago, on 5 September, when you said: "ACAS has awarded 4% without strings. RMT accept that decision. London Underground are refusing to implement it, and I think it is absolutely outrageous and typical of the...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 19 September 2001

I wish I had confidence that the Conservative party nationally had the same openness as our colleagues in London appear to have. I do not want to repeat what others have said, but I very much welcome what you have said, Mr Mayor, particularly since my constituency includes one of the largest numbers of Muslim residents in London. I endorse everything you have said about the aspirations of our Muslim communities of Londoners being no less than those of anyone else. One issue which comes out of this is that of "Islamophobia", which we experienced before the events in New...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 19 September 2001

Does the Mayor accept that the Conservative group on the Authority entirely endorses his statement today, and the sympathy which he expressed at our previous meeting? We entirely join him, first, in condemning what has happened in New York, but also what has happened here in London, and in condemning any form of racism. Will he accept that we say that because we have many friends and colleagues - and fellow members of the Conservative party - in London who are Muslims, including some who hold senior office as the chairmen of some of our constituency associations? We have had...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 19 September 2001

So you do not know whether the subject of air quality will come up or not?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 19 September 2001

I am just saying that there is a particular salient element in the draft which departs from the Act. I was wondering whether you took legal advice on that; and if you did, whether your adviser knew about it.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 19 September 2001

If you have received legal advice, perhaps you could let me know. At the same time, could you find out whether you let your environmental adviser, Darren Johnson, know about the change of wording from "achieving" it to "working towards" it?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 19 September 2001

Could you send us a copy of the legal advice that relates to this?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 19 September 2001

I wanted to raise the elements of the air quality strategy in your report, Ken. A very pertinent part of that is that you have changed the 1999 Act statement that "the London air quality strategy shall contain the Mayor's proposals and policies for the achievement in Greater London of air quality standards". Your draft air quality strategy now uses the phrase "to work towards" those national air quality objectives. Did you take legal advice on whether you could change the wording of the Act?