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• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Nicky Gavron AM: Thank you. Good morning, Peter and David. I want to ask a question about the convergence framework and the target that was set for it. To give a bit of context - and the first question is really addressed to Peter - you were there Peter when we were all thinking about the bid for the Olympics. The primary driver was to use it as a catalyst to regenerate inner east London where we had the biggest concentration of multiply deprived communities in the whole of Western Europe. We were haunted by the fact - and you...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 01 July 2015

Nicky Gavron AM: Thank you very much. I just wanted to make one point. It would be extremely helpful in forwarding this issue if the LEP and Assembly Members could really look carefully at the amended London Plan. I argued on behalf of the Planning Committee that we should have symmetrical high-speed broadband as the new utility delivered to all new developments. There was a lot of querying of me about ‘symmetrical’. I am not a technological whizz, but I explained that it was about having the same speed of uploading as downloading, which is obviously an issue. Moreover, we...