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• Reference: 2010/0004
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 13 January 2010

Can you update me on your progress with the academies programme, and explain what provisions are being put in place to ensure a balanced intake of children compared to surrounding schools and especially a fair share of children with special educational needs?

• 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?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

OK, a couple of quick questions first. Can I just clarify, any money that is left over at the end of the year, can you carry that forward or does that go back to the Government?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

OK, you are very keen on academies. I am completely neutral on the subject, but the figures just do not stack up to me. There are 43 academies in London, and we have got published results for 27 of them, because a lot of them are new and have not yet published. Over 50% of them have achieved less than half the national average at GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education). What I am not clear about is a lot of these are run by some serious players. I mean, we are not just talking fly-by-nights; we really are talking...

• Reference: 2007/0180-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Can TfL use its influence to press for the rezoning of Zone 6 rail stations like Kingston and Surbiton where 20,000 annual season ticket holders face fare increases of £400?

• Reference: 2007/0185-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

What is being done to improve the responsiveness of the Traffic Signal Unit?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

There is not enough time to argue about the figures we have. Perhaps we could deal with that off-line. Could you just tell me, would you encourage and support South West Trains to look at rezoning Kingston and Surbiton from zone 6 to zone 5?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I am just looking for an order of magnitude. Are we talking about £100 or £10 billion?

• Reference: 2006/0531-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

The Mayor seemed positively disposed towards retaining the "Park and Ride" car-parks that will be provided for the 2012 Olympics close to the M25 north and south of the river to the East of London. Is any other work going on to carry forward Proposal 4E.14 of the Mayor's Transport Strategy - for example to make provision for cars coming off the M40 at Hillingdon or off the M1 at Junction 4 near Stanmore?

• Reference: 2006/0537-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Please give a progress report on securing a short and convenient pedestrian route between Stratford International and Stratford Regional stations so that business passengers arriving from the Continent can readily transfer to the Jubilee Line for the financial centre at Docklands