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• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 January 2010

Following on from the point that Andrew [Boff] was raising, you said there is going to be a budget line for your academies. How many staff are you envisaging will be working on this when you are going to be having, you say, about five to ten? What sort of figure are we talking about in your budget?

• Reference: 2009/0111-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

What are the LDA's priorities for the next 3 years?

• Reference: 2009/0112-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

The Mayor has promised LDA funding for 10 academies. Has the Board yet considered whether funding secondary education is compatible with focusing on the LDA's core mission around jobs and business?

• Reference: 2009/0113-1
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

Are the LDA confident that they can meet present and future commitments inlight of the burden of debt it is carrying as a result of major infrastructure projects, including the 2012 Games?

• Reference: 2009/0114-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

What role will the LDA play in delivering the Mayor's commitment to helping Londoners improve the energy efficiency of their own homes?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

Can I go back to the surplus, Mr Rogers. I am a great fan of yours and I know how good you are at cutting out unnecessary expenditure, and I am in a way delighted you have got a surplus, but also I have similar reservations to Ms Shawcross. I am a great believer that if we have raised tax, we should actually spend it and not stash it away in the bank. Are you examining any projects that you have previously turned down to now spend your surplus?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

I want to concentrate on the Economic Recovery Action Plan. What proportion of the LDA initiatives referred to in that action plan consist of new measures? Just roughly and not down to the finest detail. What are actually new measures in that recovery plan in terms of the challenges we face? Who is going to answer?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

Thank you. Hopefully, with time, I have two lines of questions. The first one is that there was a lot of criticism before the last Mayoral election that the Mayor's Office used the LDA as a piggybank, if you like, for various projects, and there was a lot of heat about this, and I think you put in place processes, which I broadly support, for making sure that there is clarity about those relationships, but we have had so far, I think, two directions from the Mayor's Office. The first one was to spend money on sports infrastructure, which you...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

You touched on it in your briefing this morning, but perhaps you could update how your reforms of Business Link have made it a better vehicle to deliver? I am particularly concerned about the time it takes when people first approach you, the transparency process, into actually getting funding or help with business. Perhaps you could just give us a quick synopsis on what progress you have made.

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

Peter, the auditing of and the signing off of the 2007/08 accounts for the LDA was not an easy process. Could you briefly outline where the difficulties arose in that process, and what the Agency is doing to ensure that we do not have a similarly difficult process next year?