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

Would you have similar difficulty in choosing your greatest mistake?

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

Would you have similar difficulty in choosing your greatest mistake?

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

Can you tell me what the cost would have been of this element of the campaign that was miraculously suspended in the course of the general election campaign?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

I will store that piece of information, and simply ask why you put out an advert which asks for responses, apparently, without a telephone number - only an Internet site. Not every Londoner has access to the Internet.

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

The question was about the total planned cost of what your press release describes as "a public information drive" on the future of London Underground. Why only one advert for a public information drive? Why the Evening Standard? And are public funds justifiably used for such an advert?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

I didn't think doing an imitation of Houdini was a qualification for being Chairman of the Police Authority. It's no good trying to wriggle out of the responsibility, Lord Harris. Isn't the reality that the figures clearly demonstrated that the workload upon officers in Bexley was amongst the highest in London? Why is it then that a number of boroughs with lower workloads actually have higher increases in the number of officers? Doesn't it strike you that if there's going to be any faith in this new system there has to be transparency and a system which does not clearly...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Perhaps you might have been on stronger ground there had it not been for the way in which it's very apparent that the MPA has utterly ignored 37,000 people in Bexley who signed a petition seeking a decent increase in resources. The MPA, I gather, has effectively put two fingers up by giving them five extra officers. That's exactly the sort of behaviour that places Borough Commanders in an impossible position, and I have sympathy for Borough Commanders who are caught by that. But don't you think it's a bit rich for you to be criticising anybody in Bexley when...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

We're talking about local services for local people and there can be no greater local service quite frankly from the people's point of view, than the opening of front counters that are accessible to local people and to the public. As you know, in our borough several have closed and what I want to know is, will you take steps to ensure that access to a police front counter, whether it's a pod in the high street or cops in shops, even if some of those are cross party ideas, will you take steps to ensure that it's comprehensive across...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

I think all of us want to see the system of Borough Commanders work and I wonder if you would agree in that context that it is important to recognise that there's an underlying principle here. Would you accept that, to a degree, the burden of paying for policing in London is gradually shifting towards council taxpayers and that therefore it is particularly important that people in each borough are able to be satisfied, not only that they get the sort of policing that they feel that they want, but also that the priorities adopted in that borough reflect their...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

I'm glad to learn of those two initiatives. I was aware of the first one, but not the second. I think that is good news. The concern, I think, that many people have is that to achieve the sort of partnership that we all want to have at borough level, it's important that the various groups that you've referred to have sufficient information to be able to question the Borough Commanders in a constructive way. Are you perhaps thinking of making sure there is some guidance amongst Borough Commanders to make sure that, for example, each of the community partnerships...