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• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

It is not me that cannot bear with you; it is people who cannot pay their Council Tax that cannot bear with you much longer. If this under- spend is going to disappear mysteriously by the end of the year why have you included it in the budget and transferred it to reserves, which you have then used for next year's budget to keep the Council Tax down? Can I remind you (I know this is a very feeble kind of Assembly and presumably your new comrades in Labour are signed up to block any kind of movement to prevent...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

The Council Tax is over 100% and you know that. So can we come to the budget? The Council Tax increase you talk about as being minimal but you have now hit the Guinness Book of Records with 103% by our calculations in four years. I do not think anybody has ever managed that in the Western world. But given all that, do you think it is credible when we actually received your budget papers to find in Transport for London (TfL) for this year that lo and behold having gone to all the trouble and talked about all the...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

You are right, they are alarming.

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 17 December 2003

In one sense I have some sympathy for the Mayor for once if you look at the history of this: the Government's disaster Millennium Eve and then it dumping 2001 on the Mayor and that all collapsing, nothing to do with the Mayor but to do with the Government, and then the last two years criticised in the press for nothing happening and this year decides to do something. But, to be honest, Mr Mayor, it does cause serious questions, as you have seen from all sides, that we are 23 days from the event and you have now said...

• Reference: 2003/0432
• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

What strategy has the MPA developed for working with schools to reduce crime committed by young people on young people? .

• Reference: 2003/0435
• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Does the MPS have a media strategy, and if it does, what is it? .

• Reference: 2003/0436
• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

What press and/or public affairs officer provision is available for Borough Commanders to utilise? .

• Reference: 2003/0437
• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

How many press & public affairs officers are currently employed by the MPS? What proportion of them are sworn MPS officers? .

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Eric Ollerenshaw (AM): Well I do not think he has about 12 quangos to attend Lord Harris, so perhaps he would have the time.

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Eric Ollerenshaw (AM): It is a pity I cannot ask you to comment on Nicky Gavron's or Simon Hughes' proposals for youth, because obviously we do not know them and they do not exist yet. But at least we might be prepared to admit that Steve Norris, the Conservative candidate who now seems to be fascinating the Labour benches, has some positive proposals in terms of a key issue, which you have acknowledged and indeed Sir John has acknowledged. Even though I think it is a bit unwise for him to comment on what the Mayoral candidates are saying to...