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• Reference: 2008/0587
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Given that up to 40% of food packaging still cannot be recycled, what efforts have you made, as part of your Food Strategy, to work with the supermarkets towards achieving closed loop recycling and materials systems in their business practices?

• Reference: 2008/0632
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Since you have been so insistent in the past that LFEPA's board should be representative of the community it serves why would you have "grave" concerns about the appointment of a black woman to the board?

• Reference: 2007/0084-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

Does LFEPA's target to spend 8% of fire fighters' time on community safety work adequately reflect the importance we should place on fire prevention?

• Reference: 2007/0385
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

In your answer to question number 2842/2006 you provided figures on under-occupancy of housing from 2001. Given the powers that will transfer to you under the current GLA Bill, will your office agree to collect data on under-occupancy regularly, and could you please confirm when the next set of figures will be available?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

will happily acknowledge they are a step forward on current practice but I do not think they are achieving the sorts of goals that others, including the Mayor, are setting out. Can I just ask about the role of the commission? Again the commitment is in here, which is welcome in terms of the scrutiny through the Commission for Sustainable London 2012. Will that commission have the ability to question and push you back on these targets, or is this a given now?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I want very much to follow those points. This is obviously hugely welcome, but in relation particularly to the water commitment of 20% on the residential buildings- so a 20% improvement on current practice - my information is that that equates to about 130 litre per day target, whereas the Mayor's own guidance on sustainable design and construction expresses a preferred target of 70 litres. So I really want to push you back and say that the targets in here are not stretch targets. And what are you going to do to move that forward?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I absolutely pay tribute to the work that has been done, but I want to push this as far as we can go, and I want to be clear whether the commission that has been set up specifically to review this, is able to say, that figure is not far enough, we think you can go further. Or are you effectively tying their hands behind their back before they even start to say you can only comment on what is in here?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Since we have both sides and perhaps Lord Coe, you could answer. Can you give us a commitment in public that the funding will be adequate to allow the commission to do its full job properly from your resources, or your part of the funding?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

They have the scope to do that? Excellent. I am glad that is clear. Clear to me anyway. It may have been clear to others beforehand. In terms of their funding then, they clearly need the resources to do that job. Can I be clear where that funding is coming from? Because I was not sure why, Neale [Coleman], you were answering that question when surely it needs to come from the ODA, but also I presume LOCOG because this is a sort of broader strategy.

• Reference: 2006/2458
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

After Mayor's Question Time in October, you told me that Jack Lemley had had to scale back his workload due to health concerns and that was the real reason for his departure from the ODA. In light of recent reported comments, do you wish to change or add to that statement?