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• Reference: 2002/0199-1
• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

How are partners being engaged to deliver on his responsibilities? .

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I was wondering, John, have you read a document entitled, "Commonsense for London" which was found, up until May, on www.conservatives.com, regarding Labour are going to be planning to build incinerators in areas such as Edmonton. I was curious if you squared that with the Western Riverside or RRL bid for Belvedere? "Commonsense for London" stands at the website of the Conservative Party before the last election when they were saying it was actually Labour that wanted to build more incinerators, and I was curious if you could square that with the RRL bid for Belvedere.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

On the London-wide issue, you do say in the implementation plan on the waste strategy, that you propose to develop a modern network of civic amenity sites with a focus on recycling and re-use. I notice that only one borough was successful in transforming its civic amenity site in the implementation money of £21 million. Are you actually now going out there and evangelising on supporting a better network of civic amenity sites and in addition, my big concern is that some borough are actually restricting access to their civic amenity sites, and that really isn't a particularly strategic London-wide...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Are you then going to tell boroughs - we're not talking about prescribing, but are you actually going to then try and do something to prevent boroughs from restricting access to civic amenity sites. At the moment some boroughs charge and restrict access.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

The reason I came at this with this question is because we're miles away from getting a single waste disposal authority for London, and if we can't even get our civic amenity sites working together, what hope is there?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Sorry, I'm confused. I thought your bid was for education.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

The bit that I'm curious about and I think it really comes on from Graham Tope's question right at the beginning, is looking at the way in which the bids are developing, or coming forward, and being distributed, I can't quite see the strategy in it, because actually I will take issue with what Graham was implying, that the better performing boroughs aren't actually getting. I look at the London borough of Wandsworth, which has actually go the highest receipt of any money at all, which was £1.4 million, which isn't even extending its kerbside collection. It's actually just doubling...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I'm actually pegging back onto Graham Tope's question. Where do you think the £21 million should go? In the better performing boroughs, so that we do better, or across London in a strategic way, which was our hope, or just concentrating on the boroughs that are performing less well?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Not quite every borough, but yes.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Actually John, that isn't the case, because in the London borough of Wandsworth, it isn't across the whole of the borough and that doesn't extend to housing estates.