• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Is the City Corporation clear on that?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

It is not clear to me who actually takes priority, and given the situation, one would assume that it was quite clear where the priority should be. Again, it is not my suggestion, but it has been suggested that the demarcation line between the City Corporation police force and the Met police force is some absurd thing based on history and should be swept away as soon as possible. I could not possibly comment on that but I would just like to know: is London safe, wherever we are, if something actually happens? And who takes the lead on these...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Could I go further and ask a serious question in terms of - if there was to be an emergency, who would take the lead initiative? Would it be the City Corporation Police Commander, Borough Commander or the Chairman of their Police Committee or would it be the Metropolitan Police Commander? Who actually takes the lead if an issue blows up, wherever it blows up in London, in terms of terrorism?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

I understand the City Corporation's police force has undertaken a significant burden in the counter-terrorism campaign and I would like your comments on its working relationship with the Metropolitan police force at this moment.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

I am interested in the £22 million that the government has committed to finance or to fill in the resources that the Met has expended. Have we got it yet? If not, where is it? How are we going to get it? Who is earning the interest on it? In what form will it come and are there any strings attached? The real question is: we have heard about it, has it come across to the Met yet? And could you detail some of those answers for me? Do the `strings attached" one.

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

While I welcome your interest in the outer London suburban economy, and the recognition of that, would you perhaps accept that that needs to go much further - when you look at your spatial development strategy and recognising the fragility of the outer London economy - than you have yet done? Will you bear in mind that, although it sounds superficially attractive to encourage tourism away from the centre, ultimately that type of rather old-fashioned "predict and provide" approach has its limits, and that tourists will only go where they want to go? You cannot artificially force them away from...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Can you keep going to the outer boroughs, and specifically give your unequivocal support for the development of the Lee Valley National Sports Centre and the infrastructure necessary for the 2005 Olympic championships? That would include hotels and everything else that goes on. Will you give your total support to that?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

As tourism is a vital growth industry in London and employs at least 250,000 people, it is incredibly important that we develop it. Many of London's attractions are in the centre, as is the vast majority of our hotel stock. Tourism therefore adds to central London congestion, and it requires its workers to make long journeys to work. Because we want tourism to continue to prosper, we want to increase it, and to a certain extent to decentralise it - The Chair: Nicky, could you get to the question? Nicky Gavron: What I particularly want to pin you down on...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

It would be fair then to say that you're pretty convinced, or you are convinced that MPA members should not carry out that role; can I just clarify that?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

The MPA has been considering whether it is appropriate to use MPA members to provide the crucial link - going back to deaths in custody - with the family victims and there has been some fairly robust discussion, certainly in Professional Standards and Performance Management Committee, and obviously the ability of the MPA members themselves to fulfil that role, were it to be decided, would be variable. So I just wondered whether the Chair agreed that communication with families of victims would be best carried out by independent specialists who are fully trained, rather than individual MPA members who are...