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• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Just quickly on the wheelie bins. Is it not the question of how large or small the wheelie bins are and that local authorities have tended to invest in wheelie bins that have turned out to be far too big, that people can shove everything in. If instead they had gone for smaller bins it would have created a lot less problems. When they look at replacing bins, as part of the general replacement programme, they need to look at the smaller size in place of the big ones.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

The bit that I'm curious about and I think it really comes on from Graham Tope's question right at the beginning, is looking at the way in which the bids are developing, or coming forward, and being distributed, I can't quite see the strategy in it, because actually I will take issue with what Graham was implying, that the better performing boroughs aren't actually getting. I look at the London borough of Wandsworth, which has actually go the highest receipt of any money at all, which was £1.4 million, which isn't even extending its kerbside collection. It's actually just doubling...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I'm actually pegging back onto Graham Tope's question. Where do you think the £21 million should go? In the better performing boroughs, so that we do better, or across London in a strategic way, which was our hope, or just concentrating on the boroughs that are performing less well?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Not quite every borough, but yes.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Actually John, that isn't the case, because in the London borough of Wandsworth, it isn't across the whole of the borough and that doesn't extend to housing estates.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I'm just correcting what you said as across London. The strategy is not clear in the way that the money has been issued. The action plan that you have at the back of the Waste Strategy, it does give priority - I absolutely grant that, but it doesn't really indicate how you're going to be spending the £21 million more effectively. And the way in which the money has been doled out seems to be in conflict with the version that was presented to Committee, about how the money would be spent.

• Reference: 2001/0232-1
• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

How do you propose to set up effective working partnerships for the implementation of the Mayor's environmental policies? .

• Reference: 2001/0237-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

Are you aware that the Thermoselect HTR (High Temperature Recycling) flagship Plant at Karlsruhe, (quoted in the Draft Waste Strategy as having `emissions of less than 10% of those permitted by the German Regulations') was closed down in October 2000 for at least seven months because of a breach of German emission regulations? How will this affect the Waste Strategy's stance on new combustion technologies? .

• Reference: 2001/0239-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

Why was the Mayor's draft waste strategy late? .

• Reference: 2001/0247-1
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

Can the Mayor's Advisor tell us how his working relationship with GLA officials is progressing in pursuing Mayoral strategies and objectives? .