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

Would you say you're therefore getting selective information from GLA officials and the Executive Directors or are you pointing the finger at people in particular?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

So are you suggesting that if there is to be no market for recyclable goods because of perhaps a glut or something, then boroughs should in fact say to their residents, 'Well it's an enormously costly exercise to sort and collect and so on. Just tip it in the ordinary refuse as you would have done before the days of recycling.'

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

What about the general point that I've just made to you about those residents who are very keen to collect recyclable materials, but if they discover that these recyclable materials are not actually being recycled at all how would you suggest that borough councils explain that to their residents?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

Except there's nothing more disillusioning for the residents of London who assiduously separate recyclable materials then to discover that those materials are in effect going straight to landfill. For example in the London Borough of Sutton, which turns out in fact to be the pariah of recycling authorities rather than allegedly the angel of recycling authorities, glass which is collected in the London Borough of Sutton goes directly to landfill. It does not pass go and it most definitely doesn't collect £200, and this in the London Borough of Sutton and I suspect over the whole of London is creating...

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

Mr Duffy, I'm not going to question your professionalism. I presume you are perfectly professional in the job you do and you do it honestly. But you say you give robust advice to the Mayor. Now you saw this paper that we got yesterday from the Mayor's staff, the London Waste Action stakeholder, and it was as I said yesterday a very mature and a very balanced paper. Would you agree with that? Secondly, you have said that you have a presumption against incineration and the Mayor has a presumption against incineration and no doubt, as you said that you...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

I wonder if you could tell us how you're proposing to ensure that the boroughs, when they collect recyclable materials, actually have a market for them and they're not left with a large surplus which they have to dispose of themselves?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

But clearly you are a policy advisor and clearly the legislation does allow you to hide behind confidentiality, which I do respect with some reluctance, but there is in theory a position where - I don't want incinerators in East London by the way - where the evidence base suggests that the health concerns are not as well founded as people might think and yet the political context is one in which they remain unacceptable. How would you manage that as a waste advisor?

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

Invited along is different from being involved, would you not agree?

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

Is it from the London Authority and therefore is the Assembly going to be involved?

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

I'm interested in the conference. Is it an Authority conference or is it a Mayoral conference?