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  • Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    I appreciate that the widely used definition of the poverty line is 60% of the median income. How was that originally arrived at, and is that an absolutely fixed definition?

  • Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [15]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    No, no, indeed, because I think that is an important point, because I think that in the mindset of the public it is confusing when you hear that x percent of people in London are technically living at or below the poverty line. I wondered if that definition would still be applicable if the median income rose considerably in London. One might feel that the definition was less, then, to do with poverty. I suppose I am asking you: are we talking about relative poverty as opposed to absolute poverty?

  • Role of Education, Training & Employment in Lifting People out of Poverty (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    One of the things that you have not really talked about in your answers is that while we bandy around this expression, `learning and skills', nobody actually defines precisely what skills are actually going to do the trick, and help deliver some of the solutions. Am I right in thinking that one of the skills that we need to put much more focus on, if we are going to get more people into work and skilled up, is language in this city of ours. The question - really for Mr Faulkner - is whether he finds that languages do provide...

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Right, but can I just pick up on that?

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Right. You say 24 businesses have been settled successfully.

  • Funding (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Can I just put it to you that I do think that you are reneging on your duty as the man who is meant to lead for London's interest. It is absolutely clear that, if there had been a review, it is not a matter of you rolling over. You could have used the opportunity, could you not, to press for some guarantees? You said yourself that you do not think Londoners should pay a penny more than they are already committed to ' the £625 million. The fact is, however, that this Memorandum of Understanding hangs over us like...

  • Funding (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Let us stick with the point, shall we?

  • Funding (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Personal abuse tends to suggest I am winning the argument, by the way. I was always taught that. I will put it to you one more time: is it not a good opportunity for you to show how you can flex your muscles as Mayor of London, and at the very least press for some kind of guarantee that whatever the overspend is ' and I am hoping it is not going to be great; let us hope it is the most efficiently-delivered bid of all ' that would be fantastic ' but let us also have a belt and...

  • Funding (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Why are you not using the review to do that?

  • Funding (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    £625 million overall ' yes, exactly.