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• 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?

• 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?

• 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?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Would you write her speeches in those circumstances?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Mr Fletcher, you have said you are solely, personally accountable to the Mayor. You've also said that when you've taken over the reins of power from the Mayor, you're accountable and responsible to the Assembly. I want to ask you one or two questions. First of all, the Mayor, of course, gives us a report on what he has been doing, but you didn't give us a report on what you had been doing when you took over the reins of power from the Mayor. I'd also like to ask what preparation the Mayor did for you. Is he responsible...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Can I just ask if, in future, you do take over the reins of power running London as a non-elected person, perhaps you would be good enough, on behalf of the Mayor, to tell us? Then perhaps you would be good enough to give us a report of what you did while you were in charge.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Thank you. Now we've got Commander Shave there Chairman, I wonder if you can't answer this, perhaps he can. Does the Mayor expect next year, when he's going to get 240 for his transport initiative, for there to be a first call on police manpower, the extra officers going into the borough?