• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Obviously you seem hopeful that your contract will be extended beyond the initial year and into the future to work with us. If that is the case will you be happy to work in the new GLA headquarters with the rest of us and what do you think the advantages are that we can look forward to from working in a building that is as transparent and functional as the table we are sitting at this morning?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I think the problem is the GLA does not think it is worth it but the Mayor thinks it is. It does seem extraordinary. Do you believe in civic duty, Lord Rogers?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Lord Rogers, you are on a 12-month contract for a fee of, I believe, £130,000. Do you think that is value for money for Londoners?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 28 February 2001

I do not think it is good enough to leave air quality to the waste strategy. I think we need an holistic view of air quality, and you cannot get that if you take some pollutant sources and not others. That is what we do: we fragment our approach to pollutants. We do that with incineration. Incinerators are unique in relation to air quality: they produce a very wide spectrum of chemical pollutants. There are no adequate testing mechanisms in place, and those that exist are not good enough. A parliamentary question in the past month revealed 849 instances of...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 28 February 2001

Although I fully accept what Nicky has said about the need for an integrated approach to dealing with the air quality problems caused by incinerators, can you assure Nicky and everyone else here that the waste strategy will deal robustly with her concerns on incineration; but also with concerns that incineration will crowd out the potential for recycling? If we just have more and more incinerators, we are not maximising our potential for recycling or for new technologies in London

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 28 February 2001

I am interested that you should mention the draft transport strategy, Ken. Would you agree that the air quality strategy is inconsistent with the draft transport strategy? In the latter, you are content to allow the status quo of cars remaining the dominant form of transport in outer London; but the whole focus of the air quality strategy to reduce pollution in London is based on the need to reduce traffic levels.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Lord Rogers, I thought I was just getting some sense about what I have been hearing and then I have got lost again so let me just seek to clarify. Are you saying that once you have made a decision about these two sites, are you saying that that work will then be fed into the work of the spatial development plan? In terms of your accountability I still do not get a feel in terms of where your work fits in to the strategic hold of the Authority. Is it too soon? How will you relate to the spatial...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Will you be producing a report so that we will know that this is, if you like, what Rogers did in his year with the GLA?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

My interest is that that has brought about a clarity which I certainly did not have and I know a number of other people did not have. But can I just ask you in two parts, can you do all that over a year, given that you have just said you started in May? Because I understand your contract is for a year. And you have talked about the SDS and we have only seen a document that is entitled "Towards the SDS" which, as I understand it, has got this ever growing life of its own. So if you...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 28 February 2001

One of the most important issues relating to children and teenagers travelling on the London transport system is the great number of attacks by other children and youngsters. Do you agree that one of the roles we can fill as an authority is to ensure an holistic approach among the different services which we have the responsibility for overseeing, by means of co-ordinating work by transport police and others; and by working in liaison with boroughs to try to find resources to police youngsters' travel home? There have been a number of vicious attacks in south London, and it is...