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  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Brian Coleman
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    If you were declining something for the Mayor, would you put it in the Deputy Mayor's diary, or do you consider her diary too busy?
  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Brian Coleman
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    Is it not extremely bad practice to accept an engagement and then drop out at the last minute?
  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Brian Coleman
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    A friend of mine in the Foreign Office tells me that they find it virtually impossible to get foreign visitors in to see the Mayor. I understand he's declined to see the Mayor of Shanghai and the Mayor of Buchares
  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [43]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    You talk about the huge burden that falls on the Mayor's sole shoulders and that you are important to him because you help him to carry that burden. Isn't the real problem that the Mayor has to do with his non-membership of any of the mainstream political parties? He's here as an independent and he cannot actually rely on any of the political groupings to help him shoulder the burden in the usual accountable, transparent way. He has to rely on people like you precisely because he has no relationship with any of the other political parties here.
  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [54]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    Why is it then that the Mayor does seem to have made it very clear that he'd actually rather like to go back inside the Labour Party? Clearly, he is finding it a strain to carry this entire burden without party machine support of any particular party.
  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [55]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    Let me put it this way to you. You talked about other mayors elsewhere. Actually, any mayor I can think of - whether they be in Paris where they are drawn from the successful party, or indeed New York where you have either a Republican or a Democrat - they are able to draw on their own party resources and loyalties which are transparent to the people who are then electing the parties. I put it to you that one of the reasons why he couldn't use the services of his Deputy in his absence was precisely because it would...
  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [59]

    • Question by: Brian Coleman
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    Can I explore the issue of diary management? Yesterday I attended the launch of the "Don"t Choke Britain" campaign in Covent Garden, which I believe the Mayor was expected at and couldn"t attend at the last minute. The Deputy Mayor was certainly expected and the organisers were extremely upset when she failed to appear. I recognise that diary management must be a nightmare, but what's your first priority when setting the Mayor's diary?
  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [62]

    • Question by: Brian Coleman
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    I'm told the Mayor's office has told the Foreign Office that he has certain countries he wants to concentrate on. Is that true?