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Living Wage (Supplementary) [3]
- Question by: Richard Tracey
- Meeting date: 21 October 2009
Could I take up one point with you on the whole relative costs of salaries and so on? Mr Higgins, you, I think, serve with seven other directors on the ODA, receiving pretty substantial salaries. Indeed, I believe you, this last year, did forego half of your bonus until 2012. Would it be reasonable for you and your fellow directors to consider foregoing your complete bonus until you have finished the job, and then receive whatever you are entitled to, through the success you have achieved?
Legacy (Supplementary) [1]
- Question by: Andrew Boff
- Meeting date: 21 October 2009
You set the target for 7% of the workforce being previously unemployed. The data that you collected relied on a voluntary question of the staff being employed and only 25% of your workforce actually replied to that question. Are you absolutely convinced that you have hit that target of 7% and that you are claiming 10%? Are you convinced that those are accurate representations of how many people were previously unemployed?
Olympic Route Network (Supplementary) [1]
- Question by: Richard Tracey
- Meeting date: 21 October 2009
The Mayor, of course, has an aspiration that, wherever possible, the officials should use public transport. Now the media are in Bloomsbury, I believe, near the bullet train, so will they use that? Many of the officials will be close to the Central line. Will they use that?
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) [15]
- Question by: Bob Neill
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
But none of the organisations have received grants?
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?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [23]
- Question by: Bob Blackman
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Have you referred it then fully to the District Auditor and said, 'We think there is further work that needs to be done'?