• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

You say, Mr Mayor, that you are going to run this campaign over the next three years, and you say whom you have been talking to. Some questions have been raised over the Carlton debate and the management of that. Questions have been raised by others about your style and the way you operate. Everyone accepts that you are the Mayor of London, and that you should take a lead, but what comfort do we have that you will not hi-jack the campaign for your own image projection rather than making the real case? What assurances are you going to...

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

So it is fair to say that London and south-east should, in theory, subsidise some poorer parts of the country?

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

Can you explain a bit more background, and help us to get behind some of the thinking in your manifesto? When did you stop believing in redistribution of wealth?

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

Many here would agree, but when the politics runs out, there may be less force in supporting the campaign. Could we move on to "barriers to effective partnership"? You said that partnership is the only way to do this. What do you think the barriers are to an effective coalition in this campaign?

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

I did not quite get the answer: is it a fair deal for London that we are trying to achieve, or is it about branding the campaign as "London's being ripped off"? What are we trying to achieve?

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

So is this a fair deal for London, or is it "rip-off London"? What is it?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

Samantha Heath: I want to return to the subject of partners. I gathered from what you said that your principal partners in the "Fair Deal for London" campaign happen to be the ALG and the business community. When is Travers going to finish his work? The Mayor: Today. Samantha Heath: How are you going to sit down with the ALG and the business community so that they have full sight of what you will be saying on Monday, so that they can be full partners?

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

One last question, on police funding, since you mention it. Are you aware that the Home Office has recently reconvened what I think they call the allocation formula working party; and that one of the decisions they are likely to take - literally in the next few weeks, before the summer break - is to implement the last stage of that formula which has shifted resources so much away from London; and that that one decision alone will cost the Metropolitan Police Service £20 million next year? What are you doing to tackle that specific issue?

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

That is absolutely right. Nevertheless, we have the system we have at the moment, and as you will know very well, over the next few weeks - literally the next few weeks - Government Departments are working out the allocations of those substantial grants for the different parts of the country and different local authorities. What detailed work are we doing with the civil servants who are doing that so as to battle for a better share for London?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 20 June 2001

When letters and literature go out in the name of the campaign "Fair Deal for London", how are you and your advisers going to make sure that the partners are properly and fully informed beforehand?