New Clause 21
Greater London Authority Bill
11:45 am
Andrew Pelling (Croydon Central, Conservative)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
I am particularly keen to look at the matter of call-in, which would give the London assembly an opportunity to enjoy many of the powers that local authorities—[Interruption.] That is, I will be looking forward to doing so once I have addressed the matter of the poll date—I just wanted to emphasise how much I was looking forward to doing so.
The eyes of the world will be on London when the London Olympics take place in 2012. The Mayor—whoever he or she might be after the 2008 elections—is likely to follow a pattern, already established and typical in any mayoral system, of having a number of advisers around him or her who are part of a team that will inevitably move on if there is a change in the person holding the mayoral post after the election in May 2012.
Martin Linton rose—