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• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 18 October 2000

Would you not agree, though, that the consultants' report is entirely lacking in credibility? It makes no attempt to present a balanced evaluation of the issues. When they list the aims of the report, on the second page of the executive summary, they say that it "aims to present the case for" additional river crossings. On the first page, they say that the report was prepared "in order to take forward the case for a package of new river crossings". So the for and against arguments are not presented here: it is a straightforward "for" for all the schemes, including...

• Reference: 2000/0158
• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 27 July 2000

Do you consider the current way in which OfSTED is working is helping or harming the education of children in London?

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 27 July 2000

Why do you think that the Jubilee Line extension turned out to be so expensive? Do you think that one factor was that it was the Government's way of getting people to the Millennium Dome and that it suffered from the general over-emphasis, over-commitment from some of the Ministers to that project and is really part of the price that we are all paying for the failed project of the Dome?

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 27 July 2000

Undermining the morale of teachers is a very serious allegation to make and good morale amongst teachers is the most important asset the education system could possibly have. It's already very low in many schools working under enormous pressure. Therefore, will you set up an investigation " possibly like your Commission on Affordable Housing " to find out the facts of the situation and to give teachers an opportunity to voice their dissatisfaction with the burden of bureaucracy they currently suffer under?

• Reference: 2000/0054
• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

Does he intend to try to encourage the London Advisory Committee of English Heritage to adopt his principles of open Government?

• Reference: 2000/0055
• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

What action does he intend to take to follow up the resolution agreed by the Assembly on 24 May, concerning Connex South-Central

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

That's a very encouraging reply because they meet in secret, they don't publish their minutes and they have given some very strange advice particularly their warm welcome for the Crystal Palace scheme, and it seems to me that they would be much better champions of the heritage which is supposed to be what they are there for, if they were open to public scrutiny and I hope that you will use your powers to nominate people on to this committee to get the situation changed.

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

I think it is extremely important for the credibility of the GLA that we do pursue the issue of Connex South-Central because their services are increasingly unreliable and I think if you wanted to find one thing to prove to Londoners that it was worth having all this set up, it would be to declare war on Connex South-Central and try to prevent them getting their franchise renewed.

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

Can I confirm that you did also write to the Strategic Rail Authority to express the view on behalf of the Mayoralty on this issue as well.

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 29 June 2000

Is the implication of what you just said that any alternative scheme that would be cheaper has to be developed by the beginning of August