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  • Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
    Mr Mayor, generally, and when you have been absent for various occasions, is it correct that you have delegated your functions ' with one or two rare exceptions ' to the Chief of Staff normally, or occasionally other of your policy directors?

  • Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
    Why is it that you told the Assembly at the last MQT that, `Sometimes things go out from this building that I completely disagree with'? Surely there must have been a failure on the part of your advisers if that happens?

  • Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
    I notice you said that some things would have had a `strongly different tone'. Do all the mayoral advisers report directly to you or to the Chief of Staff (Simon Fletcher)?

  • Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
    Perhaps the advisers present could tell us the system that there is whereby they report to you and how they act when they are acting on your behalf? How do they make sure there is an audit trail to ensure they are acting in accordance with your wishes and any changes are spot checked?

  • Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [15]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
    Of course, as you have already indicated, from a day-to-day point of view, your senior advisers ' I used that term generically ' have authority to speak and act on your behalf.

  • Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [16]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
    Would you be prepared to make public the CVs of all the officers that you have appointed under section 67 of the Act?

  • Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
    I think it is a different issue because you often draw a comparison with what happens in New York. I suspect the Mayor's (Michael Bloomberg) deputies and his advisers ' the Peter Powers (former First Deputy Mayor, New York City) and others of this world ' are high-profile and well-known figures and we know where they came from. How do we know where your advisers come from?

  • Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [18]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
    Nobody is interested in people's private lives; what we are asking is a question of transparency and accountability. If people are being paid significant salaries and taking very important decisions on your behalf, is there any problem in having just their CVs being made available to Londoners?

  • Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [19]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
    You also indicated that they have the authority to act on your behalf and push your policies forward.

  • Accountability of the Mayor's Advisors (Supplementary) [20]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 12 January 2005
    Surely Londoners are entitled to know who your team is?