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• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Therefore, if they do not achieve previously agreed targets, they will not get the later tranches of the money that's been announced in the first two or three stages.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Can I just finally, Chair, come back to what the high performing boroughs can do in terms of encouraging and supporting the low performing boroughs. For instance, something like the beacon council issues. Have you considered, and are there measures to encourage the high performing boroughs to work with those low performing boroughs to show them how they, too, can become high performing boroughs?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Can I ask, did the London borough of Sutton put in a bid for any of this money?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

It's all very well talking about recycling. That's obviously one part of it, but clearly buying recycled goods is the key thing. And the Green Procurement Code is something that I think we would all welcome. That was launched in March. Can I ask how many boroughs and how many companies have currently signed up to that?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Well, either you think that wheeled bins are a bad thing and you're going to do something about it, or you're going to use them in a positive way, to help to improve people's recycling rates. I can think of several ways that you might actually modify a bin scheme to do that.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Can you envisage yourself turning down a contract because of the size of wheeled bins?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

So, it's just words then, really, is it?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

And how much have you received?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I'm delighted to report, Chair, that the gunners across the river haven't quite found their range yet! My question is about education, because clearly if we're going to avoid the construction of incinerators, we need to change people's mind in London. And there is quite a lot of good on the ground work in individual boroughs, but there is a London-wide responsibility for an education campaign. Can Mr Duffy tell me what steps he's taking to ensure that's the most effective campaign that's possible?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I don't intentionally want to fill the time, but I find those rather inadequate answers, and I put it to Mr Duffy that a problem with this was that the bids were rather inadequate and didn't show the sort of vision and leadership that London should be showing on waste minimisation and on education. A couple of sound-bites is not itself enough. It's got to be joined up with the boroughs. It's got to be an effective, driven campaign, with leadership from London. Do you think that London is offering the leadership on this that it should be?