• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

The strikes will disrupt London for the best part of a week, and chaos during the week of GCSEs and A-levels is the last thing we want in London. Can you say exactly what you personally are doing to stop these strikes?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Mr Mayor, I can hardly speak, I am so shocked by your answer. [Laughter.] in my role as Deputy Chair, responsible for the pastoral care of some of our Assembly Members, I wonder whether you can help us. Given that the Conservative group on the Assembly fought very hard to avoid a rise in the council tax, and also spoke up bravely for an increase in police numbers, it seems to me that they face an unacceptable contradiction in the plans of their leaders, Mr Hague and Mr Portillo. How do you advise Mr Neill and his colleagues to deal...

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

I am genuinely concerned for the Mayor's health: perhaps the strain of canvassing for his new-found friends in the Labour party is telling upon him. Not only does he appear to imagine the CIA under every bed: he is now also imagining things which were never in the Conservative party manifesto - if he has ever bothered to read it. Would the Mayor like to note, first, that the Conservative party has pledged to match the current Government's level of spending on the Health Service; secondly, that the plans for £8 billion of savings - which are the only plans...

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

Elizabeth Howlett: Mr Mayor, you may be surprised or not surprised to know that we do not give a fig for your advice on the leadership of the Conservative party, and that we have no difficulty in dealing with our own shadow Ministers. I think it is a cheek what you have just come out with. Have you dropped your independent status altogether? The Chair: Ask a question, please. Elizabeth Howlett: This is a question, Chairman. Now that you have decided to canvass in marginal seats for the Labour party, has Millbank given you all that extraordinary and silly information...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Not only has he not answered one bit about the evaluation, because of course there has been no evaluation of the training, but the figures that I have got which have been provided for me on the costs of this programme - this is simply the training part of the programme - is indeed £13 million and not £8 million.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

What consideration has the Star Chamber given to the £40 million diversity training budget of the MPA, and how have they considered that it has provided value for money?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Presumably then the MPA evaluated the consequences of the slippages around these decisions then?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

And does the MPA support that then?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Could you tell me whether the MPA supports the MPS in reversing some of the thrust of its policy decisions that we took last year relating to the budget?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Are you satisfied as Chair of the MPA that all opportunities for saving and also opportunities for generating income will be reported to the MPA and to this Assembly as a part of the budget making process before the budget is set rather than significant sums being reported several days after the budget is set, as happened last year.