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• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Thank you very much, Mr Mayor. I am very glad to hear that neither of you feels complacent about this issue. There were 188 knife crime injuries in the two boroughs that I represent [Lambeth and Southwark] in the last year and so clearly something is happening. There was an increase in the injuries. With the end of the old knife crime strategy, we all are looking for an initiative and a new pressure and a refreshing of the pressure on knife crime. The Commissioner talked at the Police and Crime Committee about the impact of drugs and alcohol and...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

When our colleagues from the ODA came to the Assembly's Environment Committee - and we did ask you at that point about the Waste Management Plan;, when would we see it, what broadly it would look like - you were very clear at that point that this was very much a LOCOG responsibility. I have just listened to your reply to Jenny's [Jones] question about the legacy and I am a bit concerned, and I think you should be reassuring us, because I think all of our experience as politicians in London tells us that it is often the design...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

You just mentioned wind power and I gather there is an issue about possible permission for a wind turbine on the site. Will you be able to hit your 20% renewable targets if the wind turbine is turned down? Have I misunderstood that issue?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Is that over and above the 20% renewable target?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Thank you, and welcome David. We wish you well in a very difficult job. Of course, many of the Members around the room here represent boroughs outside of the immediate five around the site where there are, actually, very high levels of unemployment. We are interested in access to employment for Londoners and, in particular, unemployed Londoners. You mentioned that you were going to encourage contractors to recruit smaller contractors within London. Obviously I think many of the small and medium sized enterprises in London tend to be the ones that employ people who live in London. There will be...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Have you set targets to monitor against?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

In fact, I think you mentioned that you are letting remediation contracts tomorrow, so there are already some very big, high level contracts going out, and this is in advance of the setting up of the business club. We heard, I think, from the Chamber of Commerce last October that from their research businesses do consider that there is a serious lack of information currently available. How have things moved on from there, and how are small and medium sized enterprises in London going to be benefiting from subcontracting, from the contracts that are going to be let in the...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

So how do you know they are going to be recruiting staff in London rather than going, say, to Eastern Europe to be recruiting people?

• Reference: 2006/0116-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

What provisions is the ODA making in the procurement strategy and in the design of contracts to ensure that Londoners, particularly those in high unemployment areas, are employed to deliver the Olympics?