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• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

So other changes will be made during the public consultation stage, not during the Assembly consultation stage? You'll really just be noting the London Waste Action stakeholder dialogue comments at the moment, you won't be making any changes on those until they go to public consultation?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

I think going on from that, it's very important, you have indicated very clearly and I think Londoners would support you in that we want to find a way other than incineration for our waste. Now given that we did identify very clearly that you need to do some form of business plan, action plan, which does work with boroughs and the ALG and the stakeholder dialogue reinforces that, are you going to be doing that now with this draft strategy as it comes out for public consultation?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

I just want to reinforce that you do think that as far as the waste strategy goes there is a place for a business plan or an action plan? You believe that it's actually imperative?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

Thank you. In some of the words that you've been speaking this morning you referred very frequently to "my officers" and words like that. Do you therefore think that the strategy staff should be under the Mayoral corridor as opposed to in the core GLA?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

So you think there's generally no problem then? It's the sort of plant that you'd like to see research in for getting in to London then?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

Of course there are new technologies and new technologies. In the Environmental Committee's scrutiny report it talks about some alternatives to thermal treatment as part of new technologies and the Mayor looking into that to deal with residual waste issues. How do we intend to take that recommendation forward?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

So in terms of dealing with the residual waste, if you could deal with residual waste using non-thermal new technologies, would that be your preference?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

Have you considered any other non-thermal new technologies? Are you looking at any of those, such as mechanical biological treatment?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

But you will take seriously the Environment Committee's recommendation to look at non-thermal new technologies?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

Could I ask you if I'm correct in putting that in slightly different terms, which is that you're suggesting that the arrangements for planning in London which need to take the public with them must support the application of new technologies? Because to say it must fit in to the SDS sounds as if you're suggesting that there is some technical criterion to be reached.