I just want to put on the record for the purpose of the minutes that there is substantial agreement around this table on a lot of the points that are being raised. We agree that the MPA should be following an LFEPA model; we agree that strategies should be subject to rejection by the Assembly on a two thirds majority and we agree that bodies should have elected representation on them if possible rather than being entirely appointed. Something else we would like to see is more cases of ministers being accountable to this body and coming to give evidence...
I was just looking back at Mr Wechsler's answer to the question on water supplies. He talks about a utilities sub-committee for London that was looking at dealing with this problem. Does that committee include representation from suppliers other than Thames Water, because certainly those of us in outer London often have our supplies from other organisations? I live in Romford. I get my supply from Anglian Water.
If we were to, for whatever reason, lose a large amount of Thames Water supply, would they be called on to fill that gap, and would they have the capacity to be able to do that?