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• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

You are obviously going to be relying on what we know as Stratford Station at the moment, what appears to be going to be called Stratford Regional Station. One of the things we discovered a few months ago was that the level of crime at that interchange was quite high. What sorts of measures are being put in place to reduce crime so it is not a feature of the Olympic Games?

• Reference: 2002/0273-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

The Draft Municipal Waste Strategy sets out a desire to create a single waste disposal authority for London. Bearing in mind many boroughs are already engaged in long-term waste contracts, how do you intend to create this single authority and how will it work? .

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

John - both you and Nicky, as the Mayor's Waste Advisor, have told us at the Environment Committee, that the use of wheeled bins by boroughs actually reduces the amount of recycling. Now, from the borough's point of view, wheeled bins are useful because it reduces their cost of collection, and from the householder's point of view, they're convenient. So, are you actually planning, as a part of your approach to waste, to be reducing wheeled bins in London, or are you going to accept them as a reality?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

You say you would hesitate if a new wheeled bin scheme was proposed. What form of activity would that hesitation take?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Well, either you think that wheeled bins are a bad thing and you're going to do something about it, or you're going to use them in a positive way, to help to improve people's recycling rates. I can think of several ways that you might actually modify a bin scheme to do that.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Can you envisage yourself turning down a contract because of the size of wheeled bins?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

So, it's just words then, really, is it?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Which is most likely? Is the Secretary of State amenable to making legislative changes, or will we need to do it ourselves?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

So are you saying that a London-wide waste authority would have come to a different decision about the Bexley incinerator?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I suspect local residents wouldn't see the decision as being any better if it was a London decision than a Western Riverside one.