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• Reference: 2015/2495
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2015

Is it possible to expand Heathrow Airport without having a negative effect on London's environment and the health of Londoners?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2015

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: Thank you, Sir Howard. I am just looking at the table on NPV and social benefits on page 147 [of the Airports Commission’s final report]. Without being economists, we are trying to grapple with the issue of calculating the benefits and costs and the negative and positive aspects of the proposal. While you say Gatwick is a feasible proposal, you are saying the economic benefits would be considerably smaller than Heathrow. If you look at the bottom line of the calculations you have done - and I accept there are a lot of variables in here...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2015

Valerie Shawcross CBE AM: I just wanted to come in, if I may, Sir Howard, with a quick reaction to that comment. You have encapsulated a problem but you have it the wrong way around. You have said the problem is that TfL is trying to talk about growth that is not attributable to Heathrow. The problem is the other way around. Your projections are not taking account of the fact that all of those schemes that you have referred to there and that you are taking for granted will happen, like Crossrail 2, are actually being driven by the...

• Reference: 2007/0069-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Is Diversity Works a successful initiative? What are its next milestones?

• Reference: 2006/0212-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

What benefit, if any, will the poorer community living around the South Bank and the Tate Modern see from the LDAs spending on these capital based schemes?

• Reference: 2006/0213-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

How is the Climate Change Agency working with Borough to develop borough level programmes. What is their assessment of the engagement of Boroughs in this work?

• Reference: 2006/0214-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

What work has the Food Commission done to assess the likelihood of future threats to the food supply in London caused by dramatic global climate changes?

• Reference: 2006/0215-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Has the LDA reviewed its policy towards aviation in light of the revised scientific assessments of the threats of Climate Change?

• Reference: 2006/0216-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

What progress has been made on the planned programmes to help local people and businesses in London to access the jobs and contract opportunities the Games will bring?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Can I say, I agree with that principle but can I just point out that perhaps there may be some problems in as much as there are multiple funding streams with multiple accountabilities for the different sources of that money and there are going to be multiple expenders of those streams? It is becoming quite a complex but a considerably coherent structure. Do you think it would be appropriate to have at the level of the Olympic Board, at the top level oversight, somebody who has a view of the coherence of the auditing and financial control system across the...