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  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    I'm trying to find out what powers you actually have when the Mayor is away. Supposing there was a 11 September situation, for example a plane crashed into the House of Commons, the Mayor was in Australia, all flights were postponed, as they were after 11 September, and there's you, in London, in charge. What actions could you take in such a situation?

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [14]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    I was not suggesting anything like that. I was asking you what real decisions you would make. Despite the marvels of modern communication, it seems unlikely that it would be possible to communicate, even with your literary skills, precisely what was happening here in London to the Mayor, and the chances are therefore that you would have to make some decisions on your own. What kind of decisions would they be? Indeed, what decisions have you made on your own?

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [16]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    So you would accept that you could not reassure Londoners, despite the fact that you are the anointed one, that the Mayor has laid his hands upon you and that he has given you full powers?

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    Would you write her speeches in those circumstances?

  • LDA Board Meetings

    • Reference: 2001/0216-1
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 10 October 2001
    The public sessions of the LDA board concentrate mainly upon incidental discussions about strategies of the LDA and other GLA family members. With the LDA responsible for spending over a quarter of a billion pounds of public money why is it that the Board meets mainly in private? What do you have to hide? .

  • South London's Economy

    • Reference: 2001/0223-1
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 10 October 2001
    What action is being undertaken to boost South London's drifting economy? .

  • London's Inward Investment Programme

    • Reference: 2001/0226-1
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 10 October 2001
    Is London First Centre the right organisation to conduct London's inward investment programme? .

  • CBI Report

    • Reference: 2001/0228-1
    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 10 October 2001
    The CBI has suggested in a recent report that RDA's lack focus; have little influence over business and are subject to too much meddling from Whitehall. With which of these conclusions do you agree? .

  • LDA Board Meetings (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 10 October 2001

  • LDA Board Meetings (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 10 October 2001
    Thank you very much, Mr Barlow. Actually I am not terribly encouraged at all. Although the public probably won't even attend, as we all know what happens when we do open public bodies to public attendance, the public would merely like to know that they can come if they wish to come and they probably wouldn't even disturb you. So I'm not sure that there is anything to be frightened of in opening the thing up to the public. But what you have told me is that you believe that you are demonstrating open government but, as I have already...