• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 27 July 2000

You didn't mention the London Civic Forum which I understand has been requesting a grant for about a quarter of a million or did you?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 27 July 2000

Can I ask if you have had any discussion with the London Grants Committee on the way you will organise your priorities in awarding these grants and as somebody who had a fondness for your last days at the GLC and those numerous groups that used to provide Tory literature which great support. I remember "Babies Against a Bomb" and other such groups that were funded across London. You can understand our interest in this question.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 27 July 2000

Still with age. How are you getting on finding someone older than you to represent the elderly in your cabinet?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 27 July 2000

I also said Ken about the youth organisations, I mean is that all part of the discussion.

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 27 July 2000

Is he aiming for a size of 25 to match this Assembly do you think and can I ask a particular question that I actually have been asked to put to you. You made a commitment in the election in terms of the youth of London. Do you see a future member of your cabinet as actually coming from the youth groups or youth itself in London?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 27 July 2000

I am grateful to the Mayor for that answer. I have also been grateful for the support of Nicky Gavron, the Deputy Mayor, who has made comments to go out to our local press in North London against this application. As Ken was the last line of defence for residents of Finchley against the arrogance of the local Council on this, I am sure he would be delighted to know that I propose that the building is indeed named after him as a lasting memorial.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 27 July 2000

Can I just say Mr Mayor, wouldn't you agree that perhaps working out the basis of how the Assembly might vote on the say so of what the Party Whips tell you their Members might or might not do, is a rather ingenious way of doing business and one that perhaps I would be surprised to hear coming from you of all people. But secondly, will you perhaps agree that it follows on from what you said, and I welcome one point that you said, that generally this authority should be extremely sparing in the use of the call in...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 27 July 2000

I just want to clarify in response to Brian Coleman. What I actually pointed out, I think it was at an Assembly meeting, was that there were policy issues connected with Tally Ho Corner that needed to be looked at in relation to that application, to do with the height of the building, to do with the carparking and to do with whether it had any affordable housing element. I would like to ask a question at this point of the Mayor and say if you are prepared to move as quickly as possible in conjunction with me on creating...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 27 July 2000

In a sense you have articulated my fear that this is the way of subverting what was intended in the legislation. I wonder if you might consider then persuading them to let Assembly members attend even if they are not actually on the Board because the move to have Assembly members actually on the Sub-Boards or Business Boards is another circumvention of the legislation. There needs to be a clear separation of powers and therefore I think it is legitimate not to have Assembly members on Business Boards but perhaps they should have a right to attend.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 27 July 2000

Mr Mayor that seems to me to be lower than the size of the Cabinet which is currently continuing to grow. Are we not in danger with the way that you keep adding people with new interests to the Cabinet and the way that it appears to be boring, jargon ridden, irrelevant, and pointless to Londoners that the audience is actually going to continue to shrink and you will be able to put the Cabinet in the public seats and the audience around the table if it carries on like this.