• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

I asked a question on another point. The question was about your sensitivity to partners. How are you going to be sensitive to the needs of partners and bring them on board - the outer London boroughs, the inner London boroughs, all the key partners that Sam Heath talked about?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

As you know, some of the coastal towns in the south-east have appalling deprivation, and that will be dredged up. So what you are saying is that you have not discussed this campaign with any other body in any other region. That worries me, because I think you are going to lose on this, and lose badly. Secondly, if we are going to try to make this campaign cross-party and cross everything else, we would like to know who are the other people who will line up with you. Are they, for instance - shall I guess? - London First...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

I declare an interest as an immigrant from Lancashire. Isn't the danger that launching this campaign on Monday, with all the hoo-hah that is associated with anything you do, will simply give the Government what they want - dividing this country into separate regions, turning one region against another, so that they can divide and conquer? That is the great danger. We all understand the argument and many of us sympathise with it, but the real danger of you leading this campaign and setting it off next week without, so far as I know, any consultation with anybody in any...

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

You made no reference to two spurs when we had this discussion last time. Are you saying that now because you have had a chance to think more carefully about this matter; or are you thinking more carefully about it now because it has been raised as a question?

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

I am surprised and disappointed by the Mayor's lack of knowledge of this matter - [Laughter.] - bearing in mind that, at the last Question Time, he said to me: "There is no unemployment in Woodford - that is not where we want" the Wimbledon-Hackney line "to go." That was a sweeping generalisation, not a detailed analysis. [Laughter.] Roger Evans: It certainly was, and I can tell you that Woodford Bridge ward has an unemployment rate of 9%, which is higher than the national average of 8%. It comes 2,805th in terms of deprivation out of a total of over...

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

I want to go back to your desire to fund the more deprived parts of London from the richer parts. Probably across the board, everyone agrees that deprived areas need parity of funding. But what I am scared of is the way in which that is developing in your strategies as an either/or, and formula is following funding. From what I have seen so far of the transport strategy and the spatial development strategy, the focus is on the deprivation. Great - but I know from Nicky's presentation in Haringey that there are many concerns about jumping on the opportunities...

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

Mr Mayor, could you tell me what the unemployment rate is in Woodford Bridge ward, please?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

Then we can increase the services, can't we?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

So can we reverse the current export of money from Croydon and Sutton to the London budget?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

I am sure that we support your "abolish capital punishment" publicity programme, but you made the point to Len Duvall that you want equality of treatment. I can understand the anger, because the new Labour Government, after all, is a north country and Scottish party more than anything else, and it discriminates against London. If we are to have that equality of treatment, surely the same principle should apply within London as well, and I am rather concerned by what you say about the transfer of resources from rich parts of London to poor parts. Does south London count as...