• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

And you certainly wouldn't be happy with any proposal that didn't have the support of the community in which it was broadly based?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

You're content you think you can get the Mayor's policy across?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

And the final point, is it do you think a wise state of affairs applications for certain types of plant to go to the Department of Trade & Industry? Would it make more sense for these matters to come to the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

Have you had much discussion with government along those lines? What progress are we making with ministers there? Are they thinking the same way?

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

And so going on from that, do you see your position as one where you follow the lead from your political masters and tell them how they can do something, or to tell them how they can't?

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

And so what you're indicating is that should the Mayor tell you a position and should the Deputy Mayor and the advisor, the political people, all say one thing, your position would be to follow that, would it?

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

What's your position on incineration?

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

What do you think the Mayor's strategy and position is on incineration?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

This is not Roger's supplementary, this is mine. Do you not think that instead of the Deputy Mayor and the environment spokesman raising these issues with the Mayor, both of them could have raised these issues at the Environment Committee when we were doing our work on all this last year? They both sit on the Environment Committee and so perhaps if we'd ironed it out there, there wouldn't have been the hold-up in the Mayor's office.

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

What would your role be in terms of getting the Mayor's strategy or delivering the Mayor's strategy? Would you say it would be instructing people what to do or would you say that you'd be taking the lead and advising the Mayor so that he instructs?