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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Yes, Chair. I am impressed the Mayor has created another functional body: Bacon for London! I have three areas of questioning - very briefly. The first is you are trying to clutch some sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat, I would suggest. The Government effectively abolished both the budgets and the entities of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) last year, while accepting that City Hall is going to have some economic regeneration capacity. I pay tribute to you personally because I know you have been scrambling in the background to try to persuade it that it made...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Yes, Chair. I am impressed the Mayor has created another functional body: Bacon for London! I have three areas of questioning - very briefly. The first is you are trying to clutch some sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat, I would suggest. The Government effectively abolished both the budgets and the entities of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) last year, while accepting that City Hall is going to have some economic regeneration capacity. I pay tribute to you personally because I know you have been scrambling in the background to try to persuade it that it made...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Thank you, Chair. Cruel fate has dictated that I lead on this as well! I am very grateful for your opening comments. Can you tell us what progress you have made in your discussions with the boroughs in particular on how they might be affected, particularly on the planning powers?

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

From what I understand of it, the environmental strategies are all pretty good stuff, and I am generally happy to support them and sign-up to them, but I am getting complaints from local residents that on the ground where works are already taking place, for example, test works or earth moving works, or works along the canal network, that the customer practice that has been developed by contractors does not seem to be consistent with those strategies; Roadways have been closed unnecessarily, trees which are mature, which would appear to have a life beyond the Olympics, have been torn down...

• Reference: 2007/0013-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

What are you doing to ensure the economic boost brought to the host boroughs and the rest of London will be sustained beyond 2012?

• Reference: 2006/0208-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

How is the LDA responding to the review of the Mayor's powers?

• Reference: 2006/0209-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

What evidence has been drawn so far of the economic development benefits of the Agency's childcare projects?

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

Very briefly, hopefully, then. I am wondering if you can help on this. There are many local firms in my constituency and in Jennette's (Arnold, AM) who are tantalised by the prospect of getting contract work out of the Olympics, and we need to be very straight and open and honest with them about what can be achieved and what cannot be achieved. I am interested in hearing about the extent to which you have taken legal advice on how we can work within the restraints of public law and European law and also about the communication strategy of building...

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

Just very briefly following that up, I think we have quite rightly focused on the role of the LSCs and this question is probably to Neale Coleman (Director, Business Planning and Regeneration, GLA), maybe with David Lunts (Executive Director of Policy and Partnerships, GLA) in support, and it is: given the comments the Mayor has made about the lack of functionality and capability of the LSCs in London, how important is resolving that issue to delivering training and skills for the Olympics?

• Reference: 2005/0476-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

How are a. Borough b. other public sector c. voluntary sector and d. other local interests being managed in relation to the Olympics? Is there a new 'legacy board' or alternative structure or structures for liaison?