• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

So in terms of the waste strategy, will the Mayor and the ALG be sitting down together and presenting the issues to Londoners?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

Given that there's quite a lot of agreement and you highlight that the ALG are very pleased with the waste strategy - well they're complementary about the waste strategy. So would you think it would be a good idea for the Mayor and the ALG to jointly be on a platform and talking to Londoners directly about some of these issues?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

John, just simply as someone who's not dealing with the detail of this every day I thought it was a useful indicator for me as a lay person on these environmental issues to get an indication of that relationship. So happiness is breaking out it seems between the ALG and you, that's great, but what about the Mayor then? We've heard various useful comments from various members about the need for Londoners to have a clarity about the future of waste management, whether it be around recycling, incineration, landfill or whatever. How are you advising the Mayor to take forward...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

Since the energy strategy is a non-statutory strategy it would be more than appropriate if you have a sterling relationship with the Association of London Government to be able to create and forge good partnerships and develop a sterling relationship with the exemplar boroughs on the subject, would you agree that it would be important to do that?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

I was just interested in your use of the word "my" there. And similarly another beacon borough would be Merton Council. Have you any knowledge of working with them?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Isn't the real problem that we are getting dangerously close to the actual carnival - it is only three months away - and, as I understand it, we cannot press the "go" button on funding for the extra stewards because the Carnival Review Group, on which I sit, is still waiting for Notting Hill Carnival Trust to come with IRIS and make a presentation to the group so that our Chairman, Lee Jasper, can give the thumbs up? Isn't the real problem that the Notting Hill Carnival Trust is dragging its feet, and there seems to be no sense of...

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

It seems to me that Londoners and carnivalgoers would prefer to have ex-paras rather than William Hague and his baseball cap out there. [Interruption.] No, it isn't. Ken, don't you and those people involved in getting the carnival funded and keeping it where it is as a jewel in London's crown feel that whatever is done will not satisfy those critics and certain members of the Tory party on the GLA?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

May I pursue the relationship with the GLA, which is going to be the paymaster? Will we be responsible for whatever these ex-paras do on the streets of Notting Hill, or will you?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Thank you, Mr Mayor. I understand that the 500 stewards are broken down into the 200 normal community stewards of last year and 300 further stewards from a company called ISIS or IRIS. ISIS is an education company, so I do not suppose it is that - we are not to have pupils out there. I believe that these stewards are ex-paras. Are you happy with having ex-paras on the streets of Notting Hill who, according to your adviser, will use "a solid command and control structure to inject discipline into the proceedings and to introduce more rigorous training"? [Laughter.]...

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

I knew you were going to pick on me first. The answer to the question about policing in Sutton is that, under the 1,050, an additional 20 officers would come to Sutton; but, as they were already in Sutton - Sutton being the only London borough which at that time was, at least on the figures, over strength - the Commissioner allowed the borough to keep those 20 officers in anticipation of the new ones arriving. That is the answer. It is still not enough. May I go back, Chair, with your permission, to the original question, on boundaries? When...