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• 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...

• 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? .

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

We very much welcome the fact that we are finally going to get sight of this document on Tuesday. One of my major concerns in all this debacle has been for the boroughs. I was approached by several, including my own borough of Kingston, who are currently attempting to put together their own waste minimisation strategy. They have found it completely impossible to do so, with all the delays we have had. Today we are told that it will be published on Tuesday, and I am sure they will be very grateful; but did you not take account of the...

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

That is not the information I had, but I accept what you are saying. Will you now make sure that the boroughs are all fully aware of what is going on, and take their comments on board?