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

Many of my constituents in East London are enterprising, go getting kids, who are improving their school standards. People are making enormous progress, but there are various communities that are stuck. Would you agree with me that it is actually rather naïve of people - not that any are in this room, of course - to think that the Olympic Games will in some way solve all of those entrenched problems in one fell swoop? In other words, the Olympic Games are part of a big process that will last, in some cases, several generations, I think, before we sort...

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

That was an easy question, obviously. Try a harder one. Do you have what I might call an economic model as to how the Olympic Games will integrate with the wider regeneration of the area, and how you might, as the LDA, reach into those, harder-to-reach groups? I think giving email lists of 50 names is dramatic, it is maybe a press release, but it is not really a way of doing that.

• 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.

• Reference: 2006/0207-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

How is the LDA Olympic role changing with the creation and transfer of responsibilities to the ODA?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

A lot of people will look to their local councillors as being people to protect their interests. How do you see that working? I know the local five boroughs have, more or less, agreed a single position on the Olympics and how they work with it. Do you have any problems with any of their requests and proposals?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I have a feeling that if Angie (Bray) were Mayor of London, she might have problems with it, as well. Leaving that flippant comment to one side, do you see, for example, London Citizens having a continuing involvement with the Olympics?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

It would be very helpful for everyone if those relationships were understood, so that if the DCMS Select Committee makes a point, and the Assembly contradicts it and has a different perspective, there is a coherent response to that, and we understand how the hierarchy works, and how the different interests are being responded to and protected and so on. This could become a rather bureaucratic conversation, but some serious work needs to take place outside of meetings like this. Otherwise, we are going to have lots of very interesting headlines, but maybe not a lot of light shed on...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Some months ago, in Mary's (Reilly) absence, I had the privilege, as vice chair of the LDA, to be a co-signatory with you of a letter to London Citizens. They are a particular pressure group on behalf of a number of faith groups, in particular. A number of comments were made to them about housing, about training, and so on. How do you see that being followed through in the coming months and years?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Thank you for that. Clearly, it is a bit like the situation with local businesses, that although there may be a range of formal commitments which are very well detailed and set down, individual people and interest groups might have difficulty understanding how they get into the structure of the Olympics. Say your road is stopped up, because there is some work taking place, or some development happens at the end of your street for the Olympics, and you do not really understand who to go to, or why it is happening. How is that mechanism going to work?