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• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I am already working with LOCOG, in fact, but I was concerned about your aspect of it and if that is something that you are working on?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

One of my roles is as Chair of London Food, which is a Mayoral Commission, and we are trying to reduce London's ecological footprint. One of the legacy aspects of all the work that you are doing now is if we can encourage farmers to start producing food for the Olympics and beyond, local food, that will reduce our carbon emissions, reduce our ecological footprint. Do you feel you have enough advice on that at the moment? Do you feel it is something perhaps you could know more about? It is an issue both of capacity building within British farmers...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

No, but the fact is, to organise this, to keep aware of what is going on, it is going to need considerably more than £50,000. In fact you are going to need nearer £300,000, possibly more and I am concerned that this is not being reflected in the budget. It is all very well to have fine words. This is what we are finding constantly here, that we hear promises and fine words from people, but it is about the delivery and that equates actually with spending some money on it.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

That has begun. I am glad to hear about your wholehearted commitment to this because it is bigger than the Olympics, OK, because of a legacy of hundreds of years, if we do not all flood and die before then. But you put energy into it last year. We had a small budget. What is the budget line this next year?

• Reference: 2006/0132-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Where does the Green Grid fit within the LDA's future priorities for East London?