• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 December 2000

Will you actually support such a move? Would you also consider the sharing of facilities? For example, with the closure of desks at police stations, would you advocate that they should exist at fire stations? Similarly, there are substantial synergies to be achieved in things such as purchasing. Might you support joint purchasing between the fire service and the MPS; and indeed, bring in other bodies, such as the London Ambulance Service?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

As we are coming to the end of these New Year's Eve questions, perhaps I could ask: although I am sure that the Mayor will understand why we have been very concerned about issues of public safety and public liability, does he feel that perhaps our Green colleagues are being just a little too puritanical, saying that there should be no dancing or partying in London, and we should get on with the serious business? Bearing in mind how successful Sydney has been in promoting itself in terms of its New Year's Eve celebrations, it would be wrong for us...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

It is true that I take responsibility in the Cabinet for children up to the age of 18. I do not intend to be dirigiste about cutting it off at 18, but other Assembly Members are also taking responsibility. It is clear that this is a very important constituency, which is very well organised and has a lot to say to us.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Can the minutes show that this question arises from the London Youth Question Time that I and other colleagues attended? You can see from their presence here today, Ken, that the youth of London are looking to you. Who is the lead Cabinet Member for youth, and can you give the name of your policy officer, so that the young people here today can direct their questions to those individuals? They turned out in full force the other night, and they want to see their lives improved because of the GLA.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

As I was about to say before I was so rudely interrupted, I joined Jennette and a number of other people, including yourself, Chair, at the Young People's Question Time. Nicky Gavron was there, and I have an anecdote I will share with you later. All the groups fielded their youngest Members, apart from the Labour group, who fielded people with experience and knowledge instead. One of Jennette Arnold's other suggestions - apart from the young person's travel suggestion, which is eminently sensible - was that perhaps we should give young people mobile phones, which was obviously a very welcome...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Do you have a policy officer leading on youth matters for the young people here today?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

The New Deal Trust are putting in about ?200,000 a year and have bought two new buses, but they are still negotiating with Transport for London for it to have these concessions - even if it is not part of the agreed Transport for London network. If you are willing to back that, it will be very welcome locally for many of the elderly residents of Shoreditch in particular, who really need a better transport system.

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Thank you. I am aware that negotiations are still ongoing between Transport for London and the Shoreditch New Deal Trust, and I understand why some of those points are being negotiated. However, it seems a bit mean-spirited not to allow daily Travelcards to be used on a bus that is going to be serving a very important local need; and further, not allowing the bus to use the Angel bus stop. Do you have any comments on that?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Thank you. The reason I asked this question is that, without good data and intelligence, we are going to be unable to do what we need to do for London. What I am after is a geographical information system which allows one to look at any map on any scale, two-dimensionally and - we need the software to do it - three-dimensionally. That means that we can look at any part of any neighbourhood. Also, we should be able - this is all possible - to link with it all the information we currently have and will get from the...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Hopefully, this will be my last intervention today. [Cries of "Hear, hear.".] I am glad we have unity on that issue. The question is about giving Bob Kiley the tools to do his job. In the last answer you gave on the PPP, about 10 minutes ago, you seemed to make it clear that the only alternative for improving the Underground would be further Government spending. At the same time, you seemed to be making it clear that you were going to take the Government to the High Court next week to challenge them on their disclosure of information. I...