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• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 07 September 2011

Will our two witnesses accept that London owes them personally a deep debt of gratitude for the leadership they showed in August; Mr Malthouse in filling the vacuum of political leadership, and you, Mr Godwin, in providing leadership? Can I also pay tribute to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Stephen Kavanagh, who played a leading role and was excellent on the media, and to my own Borough Commander in Barnet, Chief Superintendant Basu, who played a blinder, which meant we had no trouble in Barnet. My question is to Mr Godwin. Other than increased budgets, because every officer always wants increased...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I know Mr Duffy is keen to interfere all he can in boroughs. Some of us can't keep him out of our boroughs. Whether or not a borough has wheelie bins I would say is a matter for the borough council, and not for anybody else. Would he accept a scheme that we're about to introduce in Barnet, which is where in the past the Labour administration, if somebody phoned up for a second bin on the grounds that they needed one, just delivered it, our administration tends to send a waste minimisation officer round for advice on why they...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I think Mr Duffy is slightly incorrect. In Barnet, I don't care how many residents come from other boroughs and use my civic amenity sites, because it ups our recycling credit. And the Mayor is welcome from Cricklewood or anybody else is welcome to our wonderful civic amenity site, which we operate in partnership with ECT at Summers Lane in N12, and which replaced Tilling Way well over 12 months ago now. It's even better than Sutton and we would welcome anybody from north London or anybody else to bring their rubbish, because we need recycling credits in Barnet. I...