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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

One final question then, just to bring it back to London level, and maybe just look at East London as an example, but I think this refers to other Members concerns. Within my constituency I have Newham, Tower Hamlets, obviously beneficiaries from the Games, but Barking and Dagenham as well, who, although they are very positive, are a little bit grumpy as well. They are saying all the action is down the road there. How does the economic model that the LDA and others are working to really benefit us in other parts of London? And, I take it that...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Could you tell us about the work you are doing, if any, to ensure that while, currently, Government is very focused, like being dazzled by headlights, on cost issues, it remains equally focused on the regeneration, the economic wealth creation of the United Kingdom, as well as London, issues flowing from the Games? Maybe other guests could add to that as well.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

My question is to Manny Lewis really. I want to ask you. What is your plan B, regarding the Manor Gardens Allotments? Because the architects clearly overlooked them in the original plan, Waltham Forest do not want them, and I would now like to know what you intend to do.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

OK. When can we expect a review to publish then? Is that still by the end of this year?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Do you think, as a result of this review, that your appraisal process and review of the options may actually get more robust?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

It is obviously crucial that we get this brownfield development right if we are to protect greenfield and indeed the green belt. The figures I have in the decade before the LDA was set up, so in the 1990s, we lost the equivalent of Richmond Park in greenfield development and in this decade we have been losing St James's Park every year, that is development on greenfield sites. So, with that context, do you think that the the LDA's annual target of, I think is it 50 or 55 hectares a year, is adequate?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

No, but the fact is, to organise this, to keep aware of what is going on, it is going to need considerably more than £50,000. In fact you are going to need nearer £300,000, possibly more and I am concerned that this is not being reflected in the budget. It is all very well to have fine words. This is what we are finding constantly here, that we hear promises and fine words from people, but it is about the delivery and that equates actually with spending some money on it.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

That has begun. I am glad to hear about your wholehearted commitment to this because it is bigger than the Olympics, OK, because of a legacy of hundreds of years, if we do not all flood and die before then. But you put energy into it last year. We had a small budget. What is the budget line this next year?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

So, 50 per cent sounds to me like a very large number of employers still to be agreed on relocation.

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Just over two thousand jobs under threat. Is that fair?