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• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 04 November 2015

Roger Evans AM: I would like to return to the debate about building links with the Indian market here in London. Recently I spoke at the World Hindu Economic Forum and also at Diwali in the Square and I was struck on both of those occasions by the size and the enthusiasm of London’s population of Hindus and Sikhs with Indian roots. What is L&P doing to use that enthusiasm and those existing links to benefit the city and to encourage more development?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 04 November 2015

Andrew Boff AM: It is only to follow on from what my colleague Roger Evans [AM] was saying. By 2040, the young population of Africa will dwarf that of China and India. I want to know what it is L&P is doing to recognise the consequential increase in economic activity that there is taking place in sub-Saharan Africa and how we are going to seize those opportunities as the major trading capital of the world?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 04 November 2015

Tony Arbour AM (Deputy Chairman in the Chair): Assembly Member Arnold? Jennette Arnold OBE AM Yes, thank you, Deputy Chairman. My question is to both of our guests. I think we can all agree that having high-quality infrastructure - be that a transport network, housing or power systems - are vitally important in attracting trade and investment to London. Have any stakeholders raised concerns with L&P regarding broadband connectivity in London? I raise this question as London’s infrastructure has been called a national disgrace. Indeed, the Federation of Small Businesses published a report in August 2014 - I do not...

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 04 November 2015

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: This is going to be for Sir Edward and also Gordon. One of L&P’s key priorities going forward is to help London firms gain more export contracts through joined-up trade, investment activities and overseas trade missions. What added value does L&P bring to securing exports in what is already a crowded field with UKTI and the City [of London] Corporation performing similar roles? Where do you add value when there is already a crowded field there?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 04 November 2015

Nicky Gavron AM: We learn - mainly from the international press, I have to say - that the Royal Albert Dock is due to become a third financial centre for London for primarily Asian, particularly Chinese, business. I would like to ask you if you could give us an update on how that is going. Maybe there has been a recent announcement but it looked as though the financing was in difficulty.

• 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: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

A little while ago I went to an exhibition at the Building Federation. They were showing what I can only call an updated pre-fabricated house. It was actually a flat. It had a steel frame and it was was in situ, inside this frame. The frame could be put on the back of a lorry and taken to a site and bolted together. You could construct, effectively, a block of flats in modular fashion and all you had to do, having plonked it there, was to connect up electricity and water. The whole thing was centrally heated, and worked just...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

That is going to be true even with the new powers.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

What about enforcement?