• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

I think that that reply will be welcomed across London. In one case affecting a fire station, there were 1,041 signatures on a protest, and there was a story in the Standard yesterday about parents keeping their children away from a school where there was a mast. In view of what you have said, will you respond to the Government's consultation document, which suggests that the planning rules be changed in the way you have just supported? The deadline for replies is 31 October, so there is time.

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

So our worst fears are coming true: you do want a Mark II GLC. You want us to be a housing authority. Perhaps then we could go a bit further and become an education authority again, and all those other things, and take total control from the boroughs. Is that your intention?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

Given that there is so much common concern about this issue, and that one of the big frustrations for the GLA is that it was not given a strong strategic housing role, is there an opportunity for the Assembly and the Mayor working together to sponsor changes in legislation for the next term, so that the GLA is given a proper, strong strategic housing role?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

Thank you: I think that those who run the schemes will be glad to hear from you. In relation to taxis, I think we are all aware of the problems at the time. Can we therefore be assured that taxis will have particular supplies of fuel if there is a further blockade?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

Would the Mayor accept that there were no blockades, as we understand the word? There were no masses ganging around the exits and entrances: there were a few people protesting, normally in chairs and drinking cups of tea. In fact, the police themselves said that they had very few, if any, problems with these people. There were protests, and drivers chose not to drive across the exit line; but I am not sure that "blockade" is the word we should be using.

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

Thank you. Would you agree that a number of Londoners have particular problems in getting around at the best of times - those who are disabled? Are you taking any particular steps to assist the Dial-a-Ride and Taxicard schemes?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

At the last Mayor's Question Time, we discussed the possibility of you taking a legal position on this should you not be convinced that PPP was the way forward. Legal proceedings are long and costly, and one thing that the Tube cannot afford is to have nothing done for a period that is any longer than strictly necessary. Do you have any other ideas or plans to force the Government to hand over the London the Tube, which should by rights be run by us?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

So is the Mayor suggesting that he is not going to be re-elected?