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• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

But none of the organisations which have recieved grants?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

It would be premature, would it not?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Very well, Mr Lewis. Why did you then put out a press release which is put in these terms, in the light of what Mr Travers has just told us and in the light of the report which I take it you had read: 'Allegations of LDA corruption false'? Referring to the allegations in the first paragraph it says, 'The review finds these to be unfounded'? It does not do anything of the kind, does it?

• Reference: 2007/2968
• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Why does the Mayor continue to plan to spend £14 million, through Transport for London, in developing the discredited Thames Gateway Bridge project between now and 2010?

• Reference: 2007/2969
• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Could you please list all staff positions working for Olympic related themes within the core GLA and your office, what are the job descriptions of these positions and how much money is spent on salaries?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Thank you for that. I also noted the comments you made about the importance of ensuring that a tight ship was run and that we get value for money, and I agree with that. Given that background, would you accept it is particularly important at the moment that the GLA itself, as the core body, and all its functional bodies are seen to be of the utmost rigour in the monitoring, auditing and accounting of all disbursements that they make, whether by way of direct expenditure or by way of grant? Would you, therefore, now instruct the Chief Executive to...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Mr Mayor, we are talking about the significant element of the budget that you have just referred to, not just for past years but for future years. People will want to be assured that the GLA is rigorous in controlling expenditure and that there can be no suggestion of laxity because of the connection of any particular officer, member of staff or applicant with anyone else. Against that background, would it not be right to protect the reputation of the budget process that you have just reported on, to protect the reputation of the Authority and its professional officers, and...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

What on earth has that got to do with anything?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Can I first of all start by welcoming your comments about the support that you intend to give to London Councils in their lobbying, because I hope you will accept that Tony Travers [Director, Greater London Group, London School of Economics] and other independent experts go a bit further than John Biggs and describe this as more than challenging, describing it as the worst settlement for local authorities in London in decades. To that end, will you, in particular, raise again with the Government the question of the wholly inadequate population statistics in London, which do not reflect in-migration, do...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Mr Mayor, we are not going to take much in lectures on morality from you, when you have just reduced yourself to the gutter of municipal politics. Yesterday you made a filthy allegation against a colleague of mine in the course of your press conference, which I hope you might form in a phrase which will make it actionable at some point; now you seek to attack somebody who no longer has any connection with the Authority; before that you accused any journalist who criticised you of being a racist. Why not just answer the blooming question and say whether...