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• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

OK. Our research a year ago showed that around 11 per cent of brownfield land in London had no planning permission on it at all, so that is an area around the size of Hyde Park that at the moment no-one has got a clue what to do with. Is that figure still roughly the same according to your information?

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

You anticipated my next question which was, if we count the Olympics towards that target, so the real issue, as it were, is for non-Olympic area target for the rest of London that we need to highlight and make sure that that is sufficiently ambitious to give us the brownfield site to protect the greenfield and then green belt.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

That is now up for renewal if it is the end of the three years so this is an ideal time for you to withhold grants.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

And Madrid, yes.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Per year, or over the three years?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Can I encourage you then? Perhaps you can encourage a different sort of show, because after all the average size of the women in this country is a size 16, so more Rubenesque, can I say, than Picasso or Modigliani. My colleague, on my right here (Tony Arbour AM), actually has declared that he likes the Rubenesque shape rather than the skinny shape. So, can I encourage you perhaps to sponsor one of these. It is lovely. Some of us are really a bit more rounded than others and so it would be really nice to see that sort of...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Right. Can I just ask you one final question? How much money have you spent on sponsoring this event?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Sorry, Ms. Reilly, with all due respect, I do not think that Ms. Doocey's question asked any of that, and I do not think you have answered it, because I do not think you have actually referred to the issue that she raises in her last sentence. I would be most obliged if you would refer to that issue.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

I understand how the event works. In fact, in a previous life I was responsible for part of the London Fashion Week, so I know how it works and how important it is. But I have a real concern that the Mayor has a duty to promote health and well-being and to have regard to health in all of his strategies. It does not seem to fit that one of the GLA group is funding an event that is definitely encouraging skinny models, people who are just not the right role models. You are probably aware that in addition to...

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

Can I just make one final suggestion which is, the danger is that you look at the individual schemes and say, `On that scheme we remediated pollution, on that scheme we had renewable energy' and there is no standing back to say, `Well overall, when we look at our total outputs as an agency, we can see whether we are making progress towards sustainable development'. So, some sort of annual snapshot stocktake would help and would help external stakeholders as well.