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• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Roger Evans AM: If you consider the 13 appliances that you are considering taking away plus the ones that were removed before, I believe the saving is around £25 million. If by some miracle you were to have £25 million returned to your budget, Commissioner, would you ideally spend it on putting those appliances back or would you have other priorities that you think would keep London safer?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 02 December 2015

Roger Evans AM: I just wanted to add my support to Jenny’s suggestion that fire prevention people might look at flood prevention as well. I wondered if there was also a role for them to do some joint working with the MPS on crime prevention because at the moment we have fire prevention people who go out and tell people largely to provide more means of exit and entrance from their properties and then crime prevention people who go around and tell them to lock them up. Might it not be better if the two services worked together and more...

• Reference: 2001/0065-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do you support the Mayor's attitude to tree planting as set out in his draft bio-diversity strategy? .

• Reference: 2001/0066-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Many of London's brownfield sites are also important habitats and therefore a land-use choice will have to be made. Which should have priority, homes for people or sanctuaries for nature? .

• Reference: 2001/0067-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Allotments are a very valuable community resource in London, but are often treated as `cinderella spaces' by local authorities and sold off to make room for new developments. Do you share this opinion and does your plan for London seek to challenge this and improve allotment provision? .

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I take your point about post war development but I also bear in mind the fact that no architect has ever said that the development they built was quantity led rather than quality led. Every development that has ever been built we have been told is beautiful in its time. The problem is it does not look so fashionable 30 years later. A lot of our densely populated areas are not pleasant to live in. How do you feel we can mitigate overcrowding in a poor environment with green space, particularly given the Mayor's demands that we also produce a...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Obviously you seem hopeful that your contract will be extended beyond the initial year and into the future to work with us. If that is the case will you be happy to work in the new GLA headquarters with the rest of us and what do you think the advantages are that we can look forward to from working in a building that is as transparent and functional as the table we are sitting at this morning?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Can you tell us what features you think the new City Hall for the Mayor and London Authority should embody and how you would have designed it if it had been your task?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

So in a political headquarters should there be more open plan or more quiet spaces?