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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

Do you know how many, if any, privately-sponsored Live sites there will be in London in addition to ones that you are planning to have?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

I think this is a fantastically important matter, and I suppose the problem I have with Dee Doocey's question is that it's very easy to try to put a number on this and say that £4 billion will solve the problem. I think we all know that out there there's a scepticism in the wider public that we are spending more on public services. I'd like more to be spent on my constituency in East London. People are asking whether we are getting sufficient value out of it, whether our services are sufficiently functional and so on, so clearly, there...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

I would like to take a slightly less negative approach than the UK Independence Party (UKIP) on this issue. The ability of EU funds to transform other areas of Europe where there is experience of poverty has been quite significant, and, given that there are areas of considerable poverty within London, and you may not be able to answer this, but can you think of examples of good practice elsewhere and has, for example, the Child Poverty Action Group, looked at examples of good practice in other European states which could be echoed and mirrored and copied and stolen to...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

I am very grateful for your answer, which I will take not only as an answer but also as a very clear statement of the challenges of getting this right. In the interests of getting to other questions on the agenda, I think we could rest it there, with the promise from you that in the New Year, there will be some clarity about how we are taking this forward, which we can maybe examine again.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

To cut this down to a more blunt political point then, there is a risk in the Olympics that if the relationship with the LSCs is not amended or revised or improved in a way that the Mayor is suggesting it should be, then the GLA's view is there is a risk to the Olympics and the delivery of training as part of that?

• Reference: 2002/0289-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Has the Mayor undertaken Health Impact Assessments into the impact of the congestion charge? .

• Reference: 2002/0290-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Are you actively supporting the Government pilot to improve young peoples' health by extending the school day in order to integrate two hours of sports and exercise? Do you agree that radical solutions like this are likely to be necessary to stop a trend towards children pre-deceasing their parents in generations to come? .

• Reference: 2002/0307-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Will your policies turn lower density housing into a luxury item for Londoners? .

• Reference: 2002/0310-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Should mortgage subsidy form a part of the recruitment and retention package for key London workers? .

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I find your answers very satisfactory on the broad issue of open space use and the way it's being treated through the Mayor's policies. Where I think there is a troublesome area which has come up again and again in referrals to the Mayor, is where there are uses ancillary to housing, be it education or health, where local authorities find themselves driven to - in the scrappy process of finding bits of land that they can put new schools on or new health facilities which need to support new housing - they find they are tempted to snap away...