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• Reference: 2015/0807
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

What plans do you have to honour the promise to relocate the Newham travellers into the Olympic Park in legacy? Alternatively, what steps are you taking to compensate them for their loss of opportunity?

• Reference: 2015/0808
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

Are the LLDC supporting an Eastern spur to Crossrail 2?

• Reference: 2015/0809
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

What funding do LLDC provide for jobs and skills activity in the 6 Olympic (now 'Growth') Boroughs?

• Reference: 2015/0810
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

How is the LLDC dealing with 'cliff edge' issues on its boundaries? Where are these most severe and what particular initiatives are being pursued?

• Reference: 2015/0811
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

What jobs and housing guarantees are being given to Olympic/Growth Borough residents? To what extent do these apply solely to the residents in whose borough a particular development occurs?

• Reference: 2015/0812
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

Are the LLDC supporting the stopping of International trains at Stratford and if so how?

• Reference: 2015/0813
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

What agreements exist for community use of former Olympic venues, and how are these monitored and reviewed?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 March 2015

John Biggs AM: I am very grateful for your answers to date. You will be aware, though, as you say - and this is a question to the Mayor - that this is a cross-party initiative by and large and you have stepped into the shoes of your illustrious predecessor, who was very clear that the Olympics were but a down payment on the wider regeneration of the area. You are saying quite a lot of things in support of that. I am happy by and large with what has happened in the Park. There are a few problems, which...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

The first is that I am a great fan and supporter of the Olympic bid, as I hope you know, not least because it benefits my constituents enormously. One of the assurances that I think some people in east London, where there is some residual cynicism about the bid, would like is assurances about the ways in which you are going to link the bid into local contracting, local recruitment, training of local people, and relationships with local schools, so that it will be a bid that strengthens the area. There is a history of colonial intervention in east London...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

I know that quite a few detailed assurances and commitments have been made in this area already, but I think experience teaches us that you have to tell people again and again, and our job is to examine those proposals again. Are you happy after this meeting to make another written representation, to us, if you like, which could be used in communications in east London and which will clarify points about training; local contracts; the fact that you are going to get local firms, rather than Burger King or whoever, into the area; the fact that contractors will be...