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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: 15 February 2007

Many of my constituents in East London are enterprising, go getting kids, who are improving their school standards. People are making enormous progress, but there are various communities that are stuck. Would you agree with me that it is actually rather naïve of people - not that any are in this room, of course - to think that the Olympic Games will in some way solve all of those entrenched problems in one fell swoop? In other words, the Olympic Games are part of a big process that will last, in some cases, several generations, I think, before we sort...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

That was an easy question, obviously. Try a harder one. Do you have what I might call an economic model as to how the Olympic Games will integrate with the wider regeneration of the area, and how you might, as the LDA, reach into those, harder-to-reach groups? I think giving email lists of 50 names is dramatic, it is maybe a press release, but it is not really a way of doing that.