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• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 02 July 2020

David Kurten AM: Good morning, everybody. My first question would go to David Bellamy. I think you would be the person to answer this, but if you are not you can pass it on. My question is, what remuneration will the members of the London Transition Board and London Recovery Board be receiving for their service?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 02 July 2020

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: My questions are to start off with to John O’Brien. I want to ask about support for businesses in London, with a particular focus on the restaurant industry. According to data from the Office for National Statistics, as of July last year there were nearly 16,000 restaurants in London employing around 325,000 people. Clearly, the sector has been hit very hard by COVID-19. Data showed in March, before the pandemic had fully hit, that 71% more food and accommodation businesses closed this March than they had in the previous March. John, I wonder if you could...

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 02 July 2020

Léonie Cooper AM: My first question is to David Bellamy and it is about the balance between lives and livelihoods. Many politicians and commentators have portrayed the journey out of lockdown as a trade-off between the economy and health and between lives and livelihoods. Do you agree that this is a false distinction and that there cannot really be a full economic recovery without the public being confident that going about daily life is safe?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you for that. Will the decision to delay the opening until autumn next year [2019] ‑ it would be great to find out which month in autumn ‑ mean further delay in the opening of the other sections and the final full opening of the line in December 2019?

• Question by: Florence Eshalomi MP
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

Florence Eshalomi AM: Simon, is there anything you want to add to that?

• Question by: David Kurten
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

David Kurten AM: Let us come back to the technical aspects. It seems the main problems are getting the three different signalling infrastructures to talk to each other. If you had an extension from Abbey Wood to Ebbsfleet then you would need Crossrail to go onto Southeastern track, which might be a fourth signalling structure. Would it not be? You are shaking your heads.

• Reference: 2017/4144
• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

When will the LLDC be on a more financially stable footing?

• Reference: 2017/4146
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

The Mayor told me he has 'asked TfL to work with LLDC to review the traffic modelling options operating the bridges in light of [his] draft transport strategy'. Should the review highlight unacceptable traffic impacts on local people, will the bridge plans be cancelled?

• Reference: 2017/4151
• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

With the housing market currently stagnating due to record house prices, banks clamping down on mortgage lending through tougher affordability criteria and interest rate rises looming on affordability requirements, are the current plans by the LLDC just too ambitious?

• Reference: 2017/4147
• Question by: Siân Berry
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

In response to my question 2017/3007 the Mayor revealed that the GLA provided £110m grant in total to Triathlon Homes for affordable homes in the East Village (the former athletes' village). Residents and local campaigners have said that Triathlon Homes have now increased the rents beyond what they can afford, forcing them to move away. What will you do to ensure that affordable homes in the Olympic park stay affordable?