• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

Can you just deal with the other points that I raised which is the likely call on the Authority staff, office space and other functions. Here, I am particularly interested in what the call that you expect the Cabinet members and advisers - such as Lord Rogers, who have been named publicly - are likely to make on the Authority's resources because as we know the Authority's resources are not unlimited. As a consequence, we may need the Assembly to take a view on whether we want those resources released to them

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

Can you just clarify one thing? You said a moment ago that Lee Jasper was not yet a GLA employee. You have just said that he is

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

And yet we are ham-strung with the fixed vision of this building so whatever changes we want to make on the structure and the way the Assembly and the Mayor's office work, we are stuck with an inflexible building.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

But Chairman the Mayor made the point earlier that this body is going to change its way of working probably over the next 12 months

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

The Mayor has asked for cheaper solutions. Well, I have informed the good folk of Barnett and Camden that I could run the Assembly out of my spare bedroom. My spare bedroom is still available. But the serious point is, Chairman, the overrun on the Scottish Parliamentary building and the debacle of the Cardiff Bay development for the Welsh Assembly has brought those two bodies into public disrepute. Is the Mayor worried that for whatever reason there are delays or overspends or whatever, whoever picks up the bill, it will bring this Assembly into disrepute because all these projects seem...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

The Mayor is fully aware I am sure of the regenerative impact of this building in Southwark. Southwark, one of the poorest boroughs in this country, is extremely keen to see this building because it won't just serve the Assembly it will actually serve the whole economy of North Southwark by bringing in some very welcome public sector employment which will be a move away from the tourism dependency of some parts of the North Southwark and Bermondsey area I hope that the Mayor wouldn't look at other sites in London without taking into account the impact on the local...

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

Is the implication of what you just said that any alternative scheme that would be cheaper has to be developed by the beginning of August

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

Thank you. I would expect the Prime Minister to say a silent prayer of thanks to Michael Portillo because I am not sure that he would relish the prospect of you moving back into County Hall. However, the Millennium bridge wobbles, the Millennium tent has got holes in the roof and it leaks. This landmark building is glass and steel. Can you assure us that somebody will have built in a design feature so that you can clean it?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

Having been a building contractor I am absolutely thrilled at the contemporary structure of this nature coming into London and the badge of honour that we are wearing when we say this is a new building and it's fantastic to put money into new construction in London. I am also thrilled, having been a contractor working with late changes, and how horrendous that is, is you're supporting the fact that we should have very few changes or minimal changes at the end of the contract. It is a new innovation in the sense that we have been working in the...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

But it is surely also the right of passengers to be able to expect to get from A to B when they need to. It is a public service after all.