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

I have not got time to get into an argument with you so I would just like to ask you a question if that is all right. I know that sales of social housing have fallen this year and there was actually an increase in the number of social housing, but it is always like a leaky pot, isn't it: as fast as you build the social housing there is the right to buy process, and so you are losing those houses? Doesn't the Mayor have any powers to remove the right to buy on new social building?

• Reference: 2007/0015-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Can you update us on progress towards the Games' environmental commitments?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

One of the methods that you could accommodate this flood risk is through the Green Grid. Now, I am not seeing any movement on this. I am not seeing the finance in place. I am not seeing, in any serious way, that you are actually going to put that in place.

• Reference: 2005/0273-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Non-LOCOG capital investment is estimated at $15.8 bn. Can you provide details of how this figure will be met?

• Reference: 2005/0274-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Can you provide a breakdown of which elements of the development will be funded by the public sector, which will be funded through public/private partnerships and which will be funded solely by the private sector?

• Reference: 2004/0209-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

What proportion of new homes envisaged for the London Thames Gateway will not be deliverable without major enhancement of flood management schemes? When can we expect to see agreement and commencement of a programme of major enhancement of flood management in the London Thames Gateway? .

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

I am sure we will all feel completely safe in the hands of developers here in London, especially putting in an environmental project that they probably do not have very much sympathy for in the first place. I just think it is incredibly premature to start planning homes, houses or buildings before we have actually had any sort of flood management assessment. I think it is expected in 2008 or 2009, the interim results are going to be in May this year, apparently, but plans are already in hand. How can you possibly do that?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Except you cannot actually roll out a Green Grid until you have got the land, and you have to have the land before any development takes place. This is not something you can impose afterwards; it has got to be there at the very beginning.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

I did not actually hear an answer to my question in there. I did ask what proportion of new homes will not be deliverable? I have got a very pretty map here which outlines where the development is going to be along the river, and it is clear that a huge proportion of those houses and buildings are going to be on flood plains. Now, I am not the only person to be concerned about this. The Association of British Insurers (ABI) have raised concerns about the issue of insuring these homes, simply because " you talk about one in...