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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: 08 September 2005

Absolutely. I am aware of the Canary Wharf initiative, and I laud it. It is absolutely fantastic, and it is the kind of thing we want. We work very closely in north London with The College of North West London to try to look at the skills that will be needed in that area. Therefore, through the LSC and the further education colleges, it is absolutely essential that we work out the skills that are needed. That is what happened in Canary Wharf. They worked out the skills that were needed, and then were able to provide the training for...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I think it would be very helpful if that were done, but also, if something which is accessible to local businesses who are not politicians like us ' who understand all these convoluted politician-speak reports ' something which they could understand and could understand how they could have access to tendering and contracts and get some of the benefits which they have been promised out of the Olympics. I hope that is possible, as well. The second question, then, is about employment training in the construction industry. My understanding is that there has already been quite a bit of work...