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• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

Wouldn't a case to look at be some kind of arrangement with the River Police and the Fire Boat Service? This was a matter I raised at the first ordinary business meeting of the Assembly, and at that time the Mayor said that he thought it was a jolly good idea; indeed it is his longest standing commitment which he hasn't actually fulfilled. He said he would investigate it. This now seems an opportune moment for revisiting this. Will you do that?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

: Are you able to say when the fire boat was last used in anger?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

I'm trying to find out what powers you actually have when the Mayor is away. Supposing there was a 11 September situation, for example a plane crashed into the House of Commons, the Mayor was in Australia, all flights were postponed, as they were after 11 September, and there's you, in London, in charge. What actions could you take in such a situation?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

I was not suggesting anything like that. I was asking you what real decisions you would make. Despite the marvels of modern communication, it seems unlikely that it would be possible to communicate, even with your literary skills, precisely what was happening here in London to the Mayor, and the chances are therefore that you would have to make some decisions on your own. What kind of decisions would they be? Indeed, what decisions have you made on your own?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

So you would accept that you could not reassure Londoners, despite the fact that you are the anointed one, that the Mayor has laid his hands upon you and that he has given you full powers?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Would you write her speeches in those circumstances?