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• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Do you think there is scope for work in the business community?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Can I ask John and Victor, do either of you think that recycling rates in relation to municipal waste disposal will be helped by scrapping wheelie bins?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

So, (1) you're hoping and (2) how are you making sure, you say it's successful, how are you measuring its success? It's something we want to be successful, but what's your criteria for evaluating it?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Sorry, you use the Assembly Committee to do your evaluation?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Which brings me on to - are you happy with the way the LDA is both evaluating that and planning to work with it in future?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Do you feel that the LDA has got these sort of green industry issues and recycling issues, or use of recyclers, high enough up on its agenda, and is tackling it the way that you, from your perspective, want it to be tackled?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

So you do no evaluation of the success of this project? Do you not even look at the LDA's evaluation?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

That's of course talks about sensible use of wheelie bins. On the other hand to go around talking about removing all wheelie bins would surely be crack-pot.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Just quickly on the wheelie bins. Is it not the question of how large or small the wheelie bins are and that local authorities have tended to invest in wheelie bins that have turned out to be far too big, that people can shove everything in. If instead they had gone for smaller bins it would have created a lot less problems. When they look at replacing bins, as part of the general replacement programme, they need to look at the smaller size in place of the big ones.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

The bit that I'm curious about and I think it really comes on from Graham Tope's question right at the beginning, is looking at the way in which the bids are developing, or coming forward, and being distributed, I can't quite see the strategy in it, because actually I will take issue with what Graham was implying, that the better performing boroughs aren't actually getting. I look at the London borough of Wandsworth, which has actually go the highest receipt of any money at all, which was £1.4 million, which isn't even extending its kerbside collection. It's actually just doubling...