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• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Mr Mayor, I can hardly speak, I am so shocked by your answer. [Laughter.] in my role as Deputy Chair, responsible for the pastoral care of some of our Assembly Members, I wonder whether you can help us. Given that the Conservative group on the Assembly fought very hard to avoid a rise in the council tax, and also spoke up bravely for an increase in police numbers, it seems to me that they face an unacceptable contradiction in the plans of their leaders, Mr Hague and Mr Portillo. How do you advise Mr Neill and his colleagues to deal...

• Reference: 2001/0149
• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 04 April 2001

Can the Mayor inform the Assembly what the cost per response is of his current advertising campaigns? .

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 04 April 2001

Those figures are indeed stunning, Ken. Let's leave aside the 99,000 clicks, which you could have employed someone to do. Let's deal with the substantive responses, of which there were 20,000 - which to my reckoning, from what you have just said, works out at about £30 per response. Don't you think that that is pretty absurdly expensive, especially in the light of the press release which I gather has just been issued - amazingly, it has been issued almost at the same time as the words came out of your mouth - that 3.1 million leaflets went to Londoners'...

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 04 April 2001

: I do not intend to issue any press releases. I am only interested in value for money, and your good name, Ken. [Laughter.] I worry about people saying that this is a terrible Kim Il Sung exercise to get Ken's face around the town on posters. Perhaps one way that you could help us to get out there and explain to people that it is nothing of the sort, and that this is a genuine exercise in consultation, is if you could let us know how many of the responses were derived from the forms which were sent out...

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 28 February 2001

How else would you get to read Metro, for God's sake? Are you aware of the practice here at Westminster of having two people holding the plastic bags? Do you know why that is, and doesn't it seem like a massive waste of somebody's life to stand for hours holding a plastic bag for rubbish?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 28 February 2001

I was delighted that you included a paragraph on the alcohol and drugs strategy in your report. I see that you are going to meet Keith Hellawell, and have promised to report back to the Assembly. May I politely suggest that it would be helpful if you were to involve Members of the Assembly who are active in health - particularly myself and Elizabeth Howlett - before drawing up a programme of action, because this is a subject which it is quintessentially important for the Assembly to get hold of as well.

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 28 February 2001

Why don't you and I set up a Puritan Tendency here, Ken?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 28 February 2001

Bob Neill, do you know anything about this?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Thank you for that statement, Ken, which expresses the view of the Assembly. In accordance with the Assembly's previous resolution, I am pursuing this matter both with Ministers and with the other devolved bodies. I shall shortly be meeting my opposite numbers from Wales and Northern Ireland on this question.

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Would colleagues agree that the smart thing to do would be to table a full Assembly discussion on this when we have a report from both Budget and Environment Committees, who are taking the inquiry lead on this? I am thinking of some time like February, which would still give us enough time to warn the Mayor. Would that be acceptable to everybody?