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• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Just thinking beyond the Olympics and who actually manages the Olympic Park, I think that is very critical for the legacy for a number of reasons. It will have state of the art sporting facilities, a park, waterways and I do hope it will still be democratically responsive to Londoners. I wondered if you have got any views from all three organisations, given that our colleagues from the local authorities have already expressed their views to some extent when I last raised this issue when they were here?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

OK, and just to add to the confusion, I think the Government Office for London have got a role in there somewhere.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I dare say your specialism is larger capital programmes. Youth services is the softer end; it is kind of more social, community type outputs. I am just not totally convinced you have got a track record in that. How are you going to buy into that sector and who are you going to be working with?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I am glad you picked out the issues around housing because is there a risk of confusion with the Housing Corporation regional office for London coming over to the Mayor? I just want to be clear that you are not cutting over each other's ground and causing confusion.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Can I just go back to Neale's comments. I am glad to hear that local authorities are looking at areas where there is already the social infrastructure to provide additional housing. It strikes me, though, that the last time the capacity study was done at the GLA, during the first term, the local authorities in the south-west, where there is the infrastructure, the roads and what have you, got off lightly. I am talking about Richmond upon Thames and Kingston upon Thames. It seems to me, when I go through those parts of town, the infrastructure is there to accommodate...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Thank you, Manny, for being comprehensive in your response. If I could just go into some of the specifics. The skills provisions that you touched on - what kind of areas are we talking about in terms of the economy that you think that 30 per cent of Londoners of working age that are workless are best bettered to get into the labour market?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

OK, and finally you mentioned earlier that London is relatively under-funded for all these interventions. At the same time we have all the two city strategies that you mentioned. Is that the best way of actually increasing intervention nationally?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

If 30 per cent of working age Londoners are workless, what kind of skill provisions do you think are best targeted at them?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

With all these interventions, have you accounted for the impact of migration?

• Reference: 2006/0219-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

With 30% of working age Londoners workless how will the LDA meet the challenge of tackling barriers to employment?