• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

He has appeared to take on the views of two people on this Assembly more than those of anybody else. What were Nicky Gavron's objections to this document, which prevented it from being published?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

Isn't it a dereliction of the Mayor's duty that the report has not been produced by now?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

We will be getting it on Tuesday, but the Assembly have already told you that we will not be able to formulate a response before the summer. We will be reading it in the summer, and we need to arrange a new timetable and new witnesses. There will be considerable delay in the Assembly's response: we have been dropped in it today, and we need to take at least a week to get our timetable together. You need to be aware of that, and we alerted you to it earlier on. Do you envisage that you will take much notice...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

And specifically the ALG, John?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

I am talking about the consultations and the implementation of the strategy, and the fact that you have delayed it four times. What negotiations have you had with the ALG about that?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

The other point is the implications of the delay, and engaging with boroughs. I know that you meet boroughs reasonably regularly, but what role has the ALG played?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

What notice has been taken of the Assembly's scrutiny in the work you have been doing?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

The other question was about the role of the consultants and the role you play with them and with Cabinet Members. What is the breakdown of relationships there?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

So what we have here is a mixture of reasons why there was a delay. You have said that a number of people have been involved. In the process in which you have been engaging, what notice have you taken of the consultants? Have you said that you will take more notice of this consultant or that - and where the Mayor's advisers fit in?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

This is now the fifth change. There was a date in March as well.