• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

No, but if you are serious about raising the level of debate in London and engaging people, real stuff has to happen in front of them. If it goes on being just presented and stage managed, it will never engage, and turnout will be low.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

I am sure there is always value in people meeting you yourself. [Laughter.] The Mayor: That is not what everyone tells me. Lynne Featherstone: It puts a level on things. It is important that the GLA develops a continuing dialogue, and I am glad you are doing it at a number of levels; but would you not agree that it involves more than simply seeking responses to your strategies? That is where your personal side comes in, rather than simply at officer level.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

Okay - that is good at that level. Have you yourself met each borough leader and each chief executive thus far?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

My line of questioning is about reaching out to partners like the boroughs. What plans do you have to engage in closer dialogue with individual London boroughs?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

We read in the Evening Standard the other day that you have been getting advice from some of your officers not to release the consultation papers to us, because they are concerned that that will raise more questions than it would answer.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

Since the last Question Time, when we discussed the state of the A12 and the dispute between Redbridge Council and Transport for London over payment for it, I wondered whether you had had a chance to reach out to Redbridge Council to discuss the resolution of that issue.

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

You may be aware that, rather bizarrely, Howard Wilkinson is pointing out that East Midlands airport is near the proposed site. I do not have visions of huge numbers of England fans arriving by plane from all points of the compass - it seems a little strange.

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

Are you aware of the article in The Times at the weekend by Howard Wilkinson, the Technical Director of the FA, who suddenly seems to be pushing Birmingham again, and the fact that the new Sports Minister, Richard Caborn, has given this argument legs as well? Would it be possible for you to arrange a meeting with the FA, rather than just with Sir Rodney Walker, to make sure that they realise the level of investment there already is in the London end of the project?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

Are you not aware that part of the reason we got into this mess is that TfL was invited to propose drafting for this regulation and failed to respond? What will you do to ensure that it does not screw up in future - if that is the case?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

That was my next supplementary - what discussion have you had thus far with the British Government to ensure that at least our own Government will support our stand on this?