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  • Waste Packaging (2)

    • Reference: 2008/0587
    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 12 March 2008
    Given that up to 40% of food packaging still cannot be recycled, what efforts have you made, as part of your Food Strategy, to work with the supermarkets towards achieving closed loop recycling and materials systems in their business practices?
  • Future of TfL Accommodation

    • Reference: 2008/0615
    • Question by: Graham Tope
    • Meeting date: 12 March 2008
    While your proposals to make Windsor House and 55 Broadway more environmentally sustainable are welcome, can you make a statement on how much longer you intend that Transport for London and London Underground will occupy these buildings?
  • Conductors on 'Bendy' Buses

    • Reference: 2008/0617
    • Question by: Geoff Pope
    • Meeting date: 12 March 2008
    What would be the cost in a full year of employing staff on 'bendy' buses to check tickets and bear down on anti-social behaviour ?
  • LFEPA Board

    • Reference: 2008/0632
    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 12 March 2008
    Since you have been so insistent in the past that LFEPA's board should be representative of the community it serves why would you have "grave" concerns about the appointment of a black woman to the board?
  • Climate Change Action Plan & London's Transport Network

    • Reference: 2008/0002
    • Question by: Geoff Pope
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    What are the next steps to take within London's transport system to meet the Mayor's target of reaching a 60% carbon reduction by 2025?
  • 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?
  • London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Sally Hamwee
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    That is fine. I am happy with that. I take your word but it does seem as though what you have done is a sort of desk-based exercise, very internally focused. Here are the people who awarded the contracts doing the investigation. There seems to be a certain amount of independence lacking, if I could put it that way.
  • London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [22]

    • Question by: Sally Hamwee
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    Can you give us a rough idea of the quantity of written material and email; the documents and the records that have been reviewed? Have you looked at all the LDA's paper records as well as the electronic records?
  • London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [31]

    • Question by: Sally Hamwee
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    Without my wanting to imply too much by this, Deloitte's role as internal auditors to date has been reporting to you?
  • London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [32]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    I would like to follow up that point and I do understand we are only looking at the process here today; we are not looking at the substance. The Assembly called for this to be put in the hands of an independent auditor in the [form of the] District Auditor. The Mayor and his advisers in response have been saying, 'Oh no, they are all involved, don't you worry' but the crucial thing you have said to us this morning is, 'The conclusions are mine alone'. That is the crucial point. Therefore, whilst you may well have had involvement and...