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• Reference: 2008/0016-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

Can you guarantee that there will be no reduction in the number of police officers as a result of the 2009/10 budget reductions?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

One of the most troubling aspects of this affair is the extent to which national security is again being cited as a justification for all manner of action. I am not asking you, Sir Paul, to comment on that, as you would understand the national security implications, if any, of this affair. I would want to make a point that we see from Mumbai how some threats to our security are very real and the nation is now looking to you as Acting Commissioner to give impartial advice on national security matters. Can I put it to you that one...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

The report refers to, I quote, 'Having identified weaknesses in LDA project management and record keeping'. Does that lead you to have concern about other projects? Are you intending to carry out any reviews or audit work on other projects?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Just to clear up the point about when the report was released I think it went to the Board at 9 am or so and the press release came out 3 pm or 4 pm. I could not get the report itself off the LDA website until close to 7 pm on a Friday evening.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

The second question is to Manny Lewis. As you know, the Eastway cyclists vacated their site at Eastway after 32 years on the promise that they were going to be given replacement facilities. Now I know you sent out a press release about the cute little newts the other day, but the fact is that you knew about the newts in November 2006 because you were told about them by London Borough of Redbridge, and it seems to me that you have just been dragging your feet. My main concern is that the replacement facilities that you put in place...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

My concern is the real deprived communities; the ones that are just not being picked up because nobody knows who they are. The more visits I do the more convinced I become that what is on offer is not really going to help these people and those are the people that we all want to help more than anyone. I wondered if you would consider a couple of things. First of all I really identified a need for some pan-London funding where at the moment you are giving it to boroughs to dish out, which I understand, but there is...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Three years or two years?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

While it is encouraging to hear that fresh moves are afoot to review the master development plan because it does seem to be totally out of kilter with the direction of transport planning, does that mean that the developments in phase one are now totally up for grabs because there is quite a lot of expansion? Is it appropriate that City Airport flights which fly to Paris and Brussels should continue? They seem most inappropriate now we have got a high-speed Eurostar line, which I understand clocked two hours and three minutes to Paris in September.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Three years or two years?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

It is obviously crucial that we get this brownfield development right if we are to protect greenfield and indeed the green belt. The figures I have in the decade before the LDA was set up, so in the 1990s, we lost the equivalent of Richmond Park in greenfield development and in this decade we have been losing St James's Park every year, that is development on greenfield sites. So, with that context, do you think that the the LDA's annual target of, I think is it 50 or 55 hectares a year, is adequate?