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• 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: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

It is good that we have got an opportunity to make a step change in the quality of development, particularly in affordable homes, with this Strategy and the Mayor's new powers. We also, as Assembly Members, had a rather robust conversation over lunch with the London Housing Corporation. That was about the very great degree of variance there seems to be at the moment between the housing management standards and the estate management standards - the neighbourhood management standards - between existing housing associations, amongst which there has been a great balkanisation; there are 500 or so housing associations in...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

The good students of Malmesbury School might be interested to know that out of all this chaos we have a bunch of Assembly Members quizzing the man who is responsible for delivering the Olympic Games in London. By the time they are voters, the Olympics will be finished. The area of the Olympics will be regenerated, and there will be many jobs there. Mr Higgins has already said that he wants to put other people on the spot to make sure it is not just the Olympics delivering all of these benefits, but it is the whole regeneration of the...

• Reference: 2003/0060
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 12 March 2003

How have you helped to create a culture of openness and public access to the work and decision making of TfL? .

• Reference: 2003/0061
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 12 March 2003

What is your analysis of the impending budget crisis at TfL and what solutions do you suggest for this? .

• Reference: 2003/0062
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 12 March 2003

Do you advise the Mayor on the approach he should take when dealing with Government on transport issues? .

• Reference: 2003/0063
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 12 March 2003

Do you support a policy of high taxes as the means to secure low fares? .

• Reference: 2003/0065
• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 12 March 2003

What are you doing to promote the integration of cycling with the overland rail network? .

• Reference: 2003/0066
• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 12 March 2003

What are you doing to develop proposals for integrated through-ticketing between TfL and the overland rail network? .

• Reference: 2003/0067
• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 12 March 2003

What plans exist to introduce books of bus savers for children? .