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• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 05 July 2018

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Since we last met, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said that 28% of London’s construction workers are from the European Union (EU). In light of this and given that the Deputy Mayor for Housing [and Residential Development] has said an additional 13,000 construction workers are needed in the capital, perhaps, Liz, as Chairman, you could advise me, do you think there are going to be problems in getting your project built?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 18 May 2011

Clearly, it is welcome to have a focus on outer London and my colleagues from Sutton and North Cheam are quick off the mark and have already, as it were, put in for some money even though you have not actually told people what the criteria is. But I, too, am concerned about your funding mechanism. It is one thing to take the money off taxpayers and to grant it to outer London boroughs. It is another to borrow because you have to pay the interest on the borrowing and you have to pay the money back. I am a...