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

I am interested also in the question of the transparency of accounting of the national functions as against the London policing functions. Can you say anything about that?

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

Since London has historically exported thousands of officers to those counties, it would be presumably relatively easy to bring them back temporarily and certainly it would address the problem of borough police numbers being depleted which has been, as you say, a very real cause of concern.

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

Thank you for that answer. Some progress has been made since 11 September in disentangling the national from the local policing strands of what is happening. A very simple supplementary question is whether we considered deploying police officers from other forces, other than the Metropolitan Police Service, to cover national functions within London?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Is the City Corporation clear on that?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

It is not clear to me who actually takes priority, and given the situation, one would assume that it was quite clear where the priority should be. Again, it is not my suggestion, but it has been suggested that the demarcation line between the City Corporation police force and the Met police force is some absurd thing based on history and should be swept away as soon as possible. I could not possibly comment on that but I would just like to know: is London safe, wherever we are, if something actually happens? And who takes the lead on these...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Could I go further and ask a serious question in terms of - if there was to be an emergency, who would take the lead initiative? Would it be the City Corporation Police Commander, Borough Commander or the Chairman of their Police Committee or would it be the Metropolitan Police Commander? Who actually takes the lead if an issue blows up, wherever it blows up in London, in terms of terrorism?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

I understand the City Corporation's police force has undertaken a significant burden in the counter-terrorism campaign and I would like your comments on its working relationship with the Metropolitan police force at this moment.

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

I am interested in the £22 million that the government has committed to finance or to fill in the resources that the Met has expended. Have we got it yet? If not, where is it? How are we going to get it? Who is earning the interest on it? In what form will it come and are there any strings attached? The real question is: we have heard about it, has it come across to the Met yet? And could you detail some of those answers for me? Do the `strings attached" one.

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

While I welcome your interest in the outer London suburban economy, and the recognition of that, would you perhaps accept that that needs to go much further - when you look at your spatial development strategy and recognising the fragility of the outer London economy - than you have yet done? Will you bear in mind that, although it sounds superficially attractive to encourage tourism away from the centre, ultimately that type of rather old-fashioned "predict and provide" approach has its limits, and that tourists will only go where they want to go? You cannot artificially force them away from...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Can you keep going to the outer boroughs, and specifically give your unequivocal support for the development of the Lee Valley National Sports Centre and the infrastructure necessary for the 2005 Olympic championships? That would include hotels and everything else that goes on. Will you give your total support to that?