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• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

I would like to return, please, to the question which was raised by John Biggs about the possible burden on London council taxpayers of the change of control. It is clear that there are going to be some continuing obligations which the LDA has entered into which are going to have to continue to be paid for. I want to know how you decide how the payments are going to be made? If those payments are going to be made, where is the money coming from? As I understand it, the vast bulk of the money which Government is going...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

The question has regularly been asked by those of us certainly from this side in the past about handing regeneration back to the boroughs. Where does this current situation leave us on that question, if I can follow the line that Tony was taking about on localism?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

Simon, you outlined earlier the worst case scenario is a Mayor coordination role in economic development activities across London. Is that correct as you would see it, if the worst case scenario is that the figures that have been indicated to us happen? Do you think it is more than that?Simon, you outlined earlier the worst case scenario is a Mayor coordination role in economic development activities across London. Is that correct as you would see it, if the worst case scenario is that the figures that have been indicated to us happen? Do you think it is more than...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

I am very grateful for your answers to Len Duvall and to other colleagues on the Assembly. The picture I have is still rather blurry. It is that you spent a lot of time speaking to the Treasury about how you might be funded, meanwhile this BIS, quietly got on with its job and scrapped all your funding. Is that essentially what happened?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

I have two points I want to raise. One is on the back of what Andrew and other colleagues have raised and I agree with the confusion that there is out there with the LEPs. If I take my own area, the growth corridor of the Upper Lea Valley and Stansted, lots of work is being done on the LEP; lots of hours are being put into it to make the bid. They thought the Mayor was going to support it. Then, suddenly, the Mayor is putting the block on it completely; not letting it go through to be evaluated...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

Anthony Browne gave us evidence that he knew of 15 potential LEPs across London that were being proposed. Why would you turn them down if they have made a good local case?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

I did not hear the commitment around staffing that I was looking for. Could you agree to shift the language both sides from the orderly wind-down language to the language of rapid transfer? Simon, can you commit to look at the resources that we have available here - whether it is reserves or whether it is a media freeze on activity here - that is a lesser priority than some of the services that we are at risk of losing? What was a prize that, after a decade we would finally get this all together, we are turning to going...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

Harvey, given your opening remarks and the role that you attribute to the Economic Development Agency and the remark Simon made about the historic role - and I think it is true now - that the Agency can play in economic recovery and leading economic recovery of this country, what role has the London Business Board, which I believe meets regularly with the Mayor, played in lobbying Government? I would have expected the businesses of London, through London First, the Chamber of Commerce, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and London media to have really played a strong role in...

• Question by: Steve O'Connell
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

Back to the fascinating subject of LEPs, by the look on your face you knew I would raise this. I would like your thoughts around Croydon's aspiration - already signed-up - to a coast-to-coast LEP with the Gatwick Diamond and Brighton? I sense your earlier comment was a rather lukewarm welcome for that concept. I would like your thoughts around that. Also, to be supportive of my learned colleague, Andrew Boff, do you agree that there is no reason why a borough could not be a member of more than one LEP, so it may see the attractions of a...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

You talked earlier about the LDA's success in developing funding models for programmes that can outlive the LDA. While that is true for a number of programmes where either they are commercially viable or that they can expect continued Government support or, maybe, support through LEPs or whatever, there are clearly some programmes that have depended on a recoverable public subsidy, such as rolling out the home energy efficiency measures in the renew programme, supporting the low carbon zones, the trees in the parks programmes. Surely these are dead ducks now are they not?