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• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 12 January 2021

Shaun Bailey AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, all. Can I address my first question to Deputy Mayor Agrawal, please? When restrictions are easing and are being pulled back, what work is being done to prepare London to reopen, by the Mayor’s Office and by your office as well, please?

• Reference: 2019/11381
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 06 June 2019

How would you rate the effectiveness of the LEAP?

• Reference: 2019/11382
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 06 June 2019

Since the LEAP was created, what actions have you taken to support economic growth and job creation in the capital?

• Reference: 2019/11380
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 06 June 2019

Could you explain why there are significant underspends in your support for community and environmental projects?

• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 07 September 2017

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you. I have three specific questions I would like to ask you. To fulfil your vision, your modelling shows you are going to need a nursery in place by 2020 and another two years later. I am pleased you have made progress on this in your work. We are rapidly approaching 2018 now. Are you confident the funding is going to be in place and that they will be completed on time?

• Reference: 2017/2836
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 July 2017

Why does your draft Transport Strategy contain no proposals to change the Congestion Charge or bring in road pricing to tackle congestion?

• Reference: 2015/2494
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 08 September 2015

Given the extensive political opposition to a third runway at Heathrow and the inevitable legal and planning challenges that will arise it is almost certain expansion is unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future at Heathrow. In light of these realities do you believe sufficient attention has been given to improving surface transport to ensure that the significant spare air capacity at existing airports in the south east is fully utilised.

• Reference: 2015/1238
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 21 May 2015

What discussions have you had with the Department for Transport on the further devolution of suburban rail services to Transport for London?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

All right, David. One thing that I am a bit concerned about is that, if you look, for example, at the actual stadium and you look at the original quote of £280 million, the Government has now acknowledged it will be higher than that because of the fact that you want a legacy from it; you do not just want a temporary 80,000 seat stadium. Now, the problem is that that tends to indicate to me that no account initially was taken of a possible legacy use, so therefore there is at least another £100 million in costs. Ignore the...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

If I turn to other areas, you mentioned - Sydney and Athens, and so on. My problem with the situation is, if you look at Athens, and, five years earlier, at a lot of the other venues, and with things like rowing and so on, these things were promised to be legacy. If you look at all the original stuff, it said, `this will be legacy'. But the rowing area now has, sort of, environmentally despoiled a wetlands area. The problem is, I cannot find any situation where I can trust claims. It all seems very pie in the sky...