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

Will you give an undertaking specifically to refer the article in question to the Head of Legal Services of this authority? Will you also undertake to ask the Head of Legal Services to review the position of all your advisers - certainly those who are paid and in a contractual relationship with this authority, because a broad issue of principle is raised here; and would you undertake to report the results to the next Mayor's Question Time?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

I asked a specific question about the political restrictions on your personal staff. I have asked this question before at appointments, and nobody seems to have an answer in this place. I understood that, as a public body, we are bound by certain regulations and laws, and I would like to know what they are.

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

I just want to reinforce that you do think that as far as the waste strategy goes there is a place for a business plan or an action plan? You believe that it's actually imperative?

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

I think going on from that, it's very important, you have indicated very clearly and I think Londoners would support you in that we want to find a way other than incineration for our waste. Now given that we did identify very clearly that you need to do some form of business plan, action plan, which does work with boroughs and the ALG and the stakeholder dialogue reinforces that, are you going to be doing that now with this draft strategy as it comes out for public consultation?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

So other changes will be made during the public consultation stage, not during the Assembly consultation stage? You'll really just be noting the London Waste Action stakeholder dialogue comments at the moment, you won't be making any changes on those until they go to public consultation?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

I think there's a lot of parallels between the two reports and in many areas they reinforce one another, but there's a huge difference over the incineration issue. Am I taking it that you're more minded to look at the comments from the Assembly scrutiny rather than the London Waste Action report?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

Will the Mayor's strategy then be drafted in the light of the comments on that as well as the Assembly scrutiny comments before it goes out to public consultation?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

John, the London Waste Action Stakeholder dialogue, can you just tell us where that fits in to the consultation process now?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

You've referred to the problems with this initiative. Without talking your way through the entire history again, John, which I'm sure you don't want to go through, can you say what you would have done differently if you were doing this again? And exactly how is it that an initiative that was supposed to be launched about now has only just been agreed by the ALG? What went wrong and what would you have done differently?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

So we've got a launch date in January have we?