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• Reference: 2014/4960
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 05 November 2014

Can I invite you make a short opening statement before we move on to the questions which have been tabled?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 12 September 2012

Fortuitously, Madam Chairman, my question is about response times, so it may be that the Chairman is able to clarify his position here, because we would not want him to be misreported in the electronic media emanating from this meeting, would we. We recall the production of the very first London Safety Plan, which I think was overseen by Valerie Shawcross when she was Chair of the Brigade. That demonstrated that response times were poor in some parts of London, including Havering, and actually led to an improvement in the resources in those boroughs. The question that I have for...

• Reference: 2002/0273-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

The Draft Municipal Waste Strategy sets out a desire to create a single waste disposal authority for London. Bearing in mind many boroughs are already engaged in long-term waste contracts, how do you intend to create this single authority and how will it work? .

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

John - both you and Nicky, as the Mayor's Waste Advisor, have told us at the Environment Committee, that the use of wheeled bins by boroughs actually reduces the amount of recycling. Now, from the borough's point of view, wheeled bins are useful because it reduces their cost of collection, and from the householder's point of view, they're convenient. So, are you actually planning, as a part of your approach to waste, to be reducing wheeled bins in London, or are you going to accept them as a reality?

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

You say you would hesitate if a new wheeled bin scheme was proposed. What form of activity would that hesitation take?

• 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: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Which is most likely? Is the Secretary of State amenable to making legislative changes, or will we need to do it ourselves?

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

So are you saying that a London-wide waste authority would have come to a different decision about the Bexley incinerator?