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• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

I would like to follow up that point and I do understand we are only looking at the process here today; we are not looking at the substance. The Assembly called for this to be put in the hands of an independent auditor in the [form of the] District Auditor. The Mayor and his advisers in response have been saying, 'Oh no, they are all involved, don't you worry' but the crucial thing you have said to us this morning is, 'The conclusions are mine alone'. That is the crucial point. Therefore, whilst you may well have had involvement and...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

I won't pursue that, because we have some questions on the employment piece a little later, so I was just going to follow on from Angie (Bray). If the 60% of median income, which as she rightly says is a relative measure, is not merely statistical convenience, because there are exclusion or inequality issues, I wonder whether John could help us in terms of the balance between policy measures that address the absolutes and policy measures that should be reducing inequality, because they clearly are differing strands. If the argument is that we need to do both, how do we...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

Any other thoughts in terms of dealing with this bottom-end problem, and the relativity?