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  • Transport for London Business Plan (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 23 May 2012
    Darren Johnson (Deputy Chair): Assembly Member Biggs has a point of order. John Biggs (AM): The Chair told us there was a standing order about making assertions for which there was no evidence. Now, the Mayor has at the one time made an assertion for which he has evidence that he can cut council tax. Now he has made another assertion that on fares, he can make no such commitment. There is a fundamental inconsistency, it seems to me, under standing orders. Either one can be said and the other cannot, and either the both can be said or neither...

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    My final question is about the quality of advice that the Mayor gets. I know this has been probed a little bit earlier, but I think we all know that, yourself excluded, the Mayor's advisors include a range of people who have political baggage behind them. How do you ensure that the Mayor gets good advice, notwithstanding thatadvisors may carry with them prejudices that help to inform their advice?

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [26]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    I think, to all intents and purposes, your average Londoner would assume that you are, with great respect to my colleague the Deputy Mayor, effectively a deputy mayor of London. Do you imagine there could be circumstances where a different Simon Fletcher or a different mayor might employ someone in your position who would have a more public persona and would, for example, be interviewed and speak on behalf of the Mayor to TV cameras?

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [27]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    You are in an interesting position in British politics. I think you are almost uniquely a heartbeat away from redundancy, in your position. It's a nice sound bite.

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [28]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    Do you envisage following up an earlier line of questioning that you might resign from your position in order to enable you to campaign for the Mayor's re-election?

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [35]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    There is a well established civil service culture in the UK apparently which is'

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [79]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    Clearly you are not ruling out the possibility that you might resign in order to assist his campaign for re-election?