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Dissolution of LFEPA (Supplementary) [1]
- Question by: Fiona Twycross
- Meeting date: 02 December 2015
Fiona Twycross AM: I wanted to correct the impression that was given that the way it has been operating at the moment has been simply about opposition Members [on LFEPA] getting at the Mayor. The fact is that the Mayor has insisted on managing by Direction even when there has not been an impasse, including on issues over which there has been cross‑party agreement by LFEPA Members. I just wondered if you could focus a little bit on what impact the Mayor’s insistence on management by Direction has had. To be honest, we have had Directions on all sorts of...
Dissolution of LFEPA (Supplementary) [2]
- Question by: Richard Tracey
- Meeting date: 02 December 2015
Richard Tracey AM: Chairman, probably this is one for you as the politician of the two of you. The fact is, surely, that government, particularly local government, has been changing very considerably over recent years. That is accepted. The straight point to you: is it not correct that perhaps LFEPA in its current form is out of date and past its sell‑by date, really?
New Technology (Supplementary) [4]
- Question by: Fiona Twycross
- Meeting date: 02 December 2015
Fiona Twycross AM: We obviously have to make sensible use of resources in the face of cuts. Some of the new technology that could come online is really interesting and will offer exciting possibilities, but do you agree with the Londoner who contacted me yesterday to say that £283,000 for a website rebuild is bordering on scandalous?
London Development Agency Funding of Organisations
- Reference: 2008/0006
- Question by: Sally Hamwee
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
A number of times the phrase is used that you found 'no evidence'. It is difficult to ask you to prove a negative but I think it would be helpful to have assurances about the thoroughness of the review. Could you tell me about what interviews and discussions there were with staff, with representatives from the projects and so on?
Review process of LDA funding
- Reference: 2008/0007
- Question by: Tony Arbour
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Yes. I would like to know exactly how you carried out your investigation; for example, did you interview the whistleblower, Brenda Stern, as to the allegations which she made and which were repeated in the Evening Standard?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [12]
- Question by: Bob Neill
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Understood. Then, quite separately, as you also point out in your report, there is a separate police investigation into the Green Badge Taxi School which you are cooperating with?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [13]
- Question by: Bob Neill
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Yes, thank you very much, so that is an internal review. Your conclusions in the report, which I have read and which were submitted to the LDA Board, really put it in these terms, do they not, as Mike Tuffrey has said; in a nutshell, of the six you concentrated on, four require further work, three of those specifically involve the police and we do not know whether Brixton Base will involve the police or not because it is too early to say yet; you need to do further work. Is that a fair conclusion?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [14]
- Question by: John Biggs
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
So, again, no intervention; the Board did not rewrite it, ask you to pull your punches or whatever?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [15]
- Question by: Bob Neill
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
But none of the organisations have received grants?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [16]
- Question by: John Biggs
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Therefore if you are looking at questions of the inner workings of organisations you might have funded in the past, you simply do not have the powers to investigate those to the extent that the allegations would suggest you might need to or might want to, or a third party might want to?