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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

And how much have you received?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I'm delighted to report, Chair, that the gunners across the river haven't quite found their range yet! My question is about education, because clearly if we're going to avoid the construction of incinerators, we need to change people's mind in London. And there is quite a lot of good on the ground work in individual boroughs, but there is a London-wide responsibility for an education campaign. Can Mr Duffy tell me what steps he's taking to ensure that's the most effective campaign that's possible?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I don't intentionally want to fill the time, but I find those rather inadequate answers, and I put it to Mr Duffy that a problem with this was that the bids were rather inadequate and didn't show the sort of vision and leadership that London should be showing on waste minimisation and on education. A couple of sound-bites is not itself enough. It's got to be joined up with the boroughs. It's got to be an effective, driven campaign, with leadership from London. Do you think that London is offering the leadership on this that it should be?

• Reference: 2001/0232-1
• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

How do you propose to set up effective working partnerships for the implementation of the Mayor's environmental policies? .

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

But clearly you are a policy advisor and clearly the legislation does allow you to hide behind confidentiality, which I do respect with some reluctance, but there is in theory a position where - I don't want incinerators in East London by the way - where the evidence base suggests that the health concerns are not as well founded as people might think and yet the political context is one in which they remain unacceptable. How would you manage that as a waste advisor?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

I want to go back to the beginning of your presentation and I wanted to understand the context in which we're listening to you, because you are the Mayor's spokesman and therefore what you say is the Mayor's view, but on the other hand you made it clear that you're a policy advisor to the Mayor which implies that there are occasions where you have advised him and he has chosen not to accept your advice. First of all, has there been any such occasion and can you imagine that occurring?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

So is it fair then to say that you have a different view from him on incineration?

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

We very much welcome the fact that we are finally going to get sight of this document on Tuesday. One of my major concerns in all this debacle has been for the boroughs. I was approached by several, including my own borough of Kingston, who are currently attempting to put together their own waste minimisation strategy. They have found it completely impossible to do so, with all the delays we have had. Today we are told that it will be published on Tuesday, and I am sure they will be very grateful; but did you not take account of the...

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 18 July 2001

That is not the information I had, but I accept what you are saying. Will you now make sure that the boroughs are all fully aware of what is going on, and take their comments on board?