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RAF Northolt
- Reference: 2017/5288
- Question by: Peter Whittle
- Meeting date: 14 December 2017
I note that RAF Northolt is about to undergo a £45 million renovation - without local consultation - which could pave the way for it to become a fully-fledged regional commercial airport. Despite a cross party coalition of MPs, AMs and 3,000 people in West London demanding answers on the MoD's intentions at Northolt, there is still no sign that they are willing to hold a proper consultation. What representations has the Mayor made to the Secretary of State for Defence to encourage him to hold a meaningful consultation with local residents?
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?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [17]
- Question by: Bob Neill
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Mr Travers, you have already made it clear, and I think it follows, that you did not speak to people who are not employees of the LDA. Does that mean you did not speak to Mr Jasper?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [19]
- Question by: Bob Neill
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
So, two thirds of the six you concentrated on require further work. You make the point in your report, 'Further work is required in respect of four organisations including referral to police and no conclusions are reached in respect of those matters' for the reasons you have sensibly set out?