• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

I am broadly supportive of the plan. It is a Londonwide plan, and some Members need to remember that, no matter how much they bat for their part of London. It is out for consultation now, but can you talk about some of the mechanisms for bringing people together to deliver some of the issues that will be in the interests of west London as well as east London, and of south London as well as the north? Can you give us your views on the diversity of the mechanisms that are required to develop London?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

I buy the dream of investing in east London: after all, it is a continuation, as you have said, of the previous Conservative Government's philosophy. But it is a matter of balance. I hope that you understand my point of view from south London. Although I appreciate that reference is made to the south London corridor and the corridor out to Gatwick, the plan leading to the London plan, as it were, which you published has acres of information on east London and talks about 50% of the job growth coming in east London. This debate about the balance of...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

I have travelled around the east end as a member of the Economic Development Committee, and I have been appalled by the neglect which has been allowed to remain there - Meg Hillier: After 18 years of Conservative Government. Richard Barnes: After 40 years of Labour councils in the east, they have allowed the economic and environmental deprivation which councils in the west simply will not accept. Economic literacy tells us that you must sustain the heart and the lungs of an economy in order to drive it forward and bring the east up to the levels of the west...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Will you take time out of what is clearly a very busy schedule to drive into Richmond Park and see what an asset it is to the road system of south-west London; and take time to ask motorists how badly they felt about the park being closed during the recent foot and mouth alleged epidemic in Richmond; and lobby the Royal Parks Agency against its ridiculous proposal to close the park to through traffic?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

You are very free with your advice to London voters this morning, Mr Mayor. Could you help voters in Bermondsey by telling them which way they should vote?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

May I raise a serious point of order? Can we please be given the costs of this meeting, which has apparently been used to promote a particular candidate?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Would you not agree that urging people to vote Liberal Democrat in preference to Conservative is no more than a statement of the obvious?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

You told us all the various constituencies that you propose to visit later, and it sounded rather like a list of stations on the Underground; and you have told us who it is you want to campaign with. Are the appropriate GLA Labour Members likely to accompany you enthusiastically in your work to help the Labour party in London? You have also told us that you are proposing to urge those people who live in Liberal Democrat/Conservative marginals to vote Liberal Democrat. Don't you think that that kind of relationship is rather like one praying mantis embracing another?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

I have a responsibility for two link boroughs as an MPA member and one point I am aware of is that there is a lot of frustration on the ground in the boroughs about the lack of local control over budgets and decision making and this comes to an aspect of Brian's question about local police stations where local discretion might allow the service to be better delivered through being able to employ civilian staff where there is often perceived to be a moratorium on their deployment. Can you address that? If we are genuine about devolving power to the...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Will you encourage exploration of other methods such as the provision of shop counter facilities, rather like Lynne Featherstone was advocating for parts of Haringey, or facilities in council owned buildings where the police can have a counter presence, which is what the public want, rather than the unsatisfactory situation we have got in Finchley. I am sure Finchley is not the only place in London with unsatisfactory facilities.