• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

How does the Mayor intend to publicise his forthcoming "Meet the Mayor" events and is attendance by invitation only?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

I think that the point about duplication is well made, but it applies not just to the MPS and the MPA but to all the functional bodies, to the GLA and to the Mayor's office. We all have to be very careful, therefore, that we can carry out our proper functions effectively, but without duplicating what everybody else is doing and second-guessing, third-guessing and so on. Can I press you, though, on whether you have any further plans for more consultation to be done, whether by Mr Newton or by anyone else?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

May I just finish? Would you accept that it is therefore of fairly limited value? Do you any plans for further consultation work to be carried out, whether by Mr Newton or by any other consultant? Or will you trust the functional bodies and the GLA to carry out that rigorous review themselves?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

Thank you, Ken. The report was in fact circulated to Assembly Members yesterday afternoon, and I would commend it to other Members. It reveals that this exercise whose terms of reference you have just given us - which incidentally were not attached to the report - was carried out over just 10 days in August, when many key people were absent. Would you agree with Mr Newton's own conclusions that he would "almost certainly be guilty of over-simplicity, failure to take account of developments already under way and in some cases just plain wrong"?

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

That is great as far as it goes, but we are back to the hard-to-hear voices. How are you going to get to the ordinary kids, who perhaps do not have access to the Web, or are in schools which do not have access, and who might not see whatever publicity you are planning?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

I felt very relaxed at the party when I understood that we were not paying for any of it, and that is what I read in the media as well. How much money was spent by the functional bodies in addition to our money?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

What about residents, or the local authority?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

Apart from myself, Ken, how many of the people on this review group would you say had close connections with the local community there?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

The one place where Assembly Members have not been able to read about the carnival or the review is in the Mayor's report to us - either the written report or his supplementary comments at the beginning. I wonder why that is. Secondly, would he take this opportunity, for the record, to tell the Assembly who the members of the review group are, what its terms of reference are, and when it is expected to report?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

I am talking about Notting Hill carnival and what lessons we can learn for the Mayor's party and other events.