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

I think that your greatest achievement for most Londoners is rather a negative one - the fact that you successfully encouraged your old muckers to bring the transport system to a standstill on several occasions, causing great misery to Londoners and losing London a lot of money on the day. That is one reason why I cannot believe that any candidate, of whatever party, in areas where residents rely on the Underground to get to work will want you to stand on the doorstep with them. I should think you would be more like the kiss of death. I notice...

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

I agree with that. What do you intend should be your greatest achievement in the coming year?

• 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...