• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

I am very interested in the result of the review. Can you ensure that it considers stewards, first aid facilities, loo facilities - we had a big problem at the Millennium party - rubbish collection and the event's sustainability? Can you ensure that that will be considered in your review?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

In your reply to the earlier question from Sally Hamwee, you said that the projected costs for policing your New Year party had come down somewhat in negotiations. Can you tell what they have come down to, and how many police officers can be employed for that sum?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

The contact did not extend to him telling me that he was going to be chair of the review. [Interruption.] I am being told off for taking too much time. I am simply saying, "Let's not do it this way again.'

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

Bafflingly, you and I are completely at one on the matter of carnival - which is disturbing for both of us. But the question I am asking is based on your column on Tuesday morning, which said that the review would be chaired by Lee Jasper. You say so in your own words. That column, presumably, would have been written on Monday afternoon - prior to any notification that that was even in the offing. We understood that on Tuesday morning, from reading The Independent. I am just asking whether this is the way in which we can expect things...

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

I do not want to make too big an issue of this, but that is not right. You issued a statement on Monday saying that there would be a review. On Tuesday morning, I picked up my Independent to find that it named the Chair of the review. That must have happened before your meetings with other people. I just want to ask, on behalf of the Assembly more than anything else: are we going to have to read important announcements - which this is - in The Independent instead of by more conventional means?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

I am sure that we will take up that offer. When are we likely to see the report on that?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

What about the safety measures within each of the PPP bids already presented?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

The Health and Safety Inspectorate seems to have been quoted with approval by both sides here. We ourselves met London Underground and Transport for London last week, when we had a useful discussion. I suggested then that perhaps we should have the Health and Safety Executive join us, so that they could tell us precisely what their concerns were. That suggestion was vetoed by the Chair of the Assembly. Do you feel it would be useful for the Assembly to meet the Health and Safety Executive and hear their concerns?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

Given the Safety Inspectorate's intervention in this matter and your justified use of that information to challenge the PPP on safety grounds, should we not be able to turn the question around the other way, and ask you whether, in the event that the HSE finds all its concerns addressed, you will withdraw your opposition to PPP on safety grounds?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 13 September 2000

I am glad to see that you used the same quote that I used at the meeting with TFL. Nothing was said at that meeting, in my opinion, to reassure me that shadow running or PPP was safe. If this progresses along the track it is following, you were at one time thinking that you might take this further and into a legal arena. The structure, as I see it, is totally about who pays compensation, and not about ensuring that accidents do not happen.