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• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Good. That will certainly start to clear things up. On the home insulation and sustainability work that you mentioned, the implementation plan for the final version of the Climate Change and Energy Strategy in May 2011, will this take account of the new settlement as it is, rather than simply the projected wish list that you were working to previously?

• 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: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Thank you, Sir Simon. There has been a fog of uncertainty around the work connected with the LDA over recent months because of the issues around the settlement. Are we likely to see this fog lifted next week then when the Mayor will publish some detailed spending plans around the extra money that is coming forward?

• 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: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

On the Corporation's Planning Committee you say there are going to be three elected borough politicians on that. Will they form the majority of the Planning Committee?

• 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?

• Reference: 2007/0071-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

What is the LDA doing to ensure that the skills required for a low carbon London will be available?

• Reference: 2007/0072-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

What is the LDA's total budget for skills work in 2007/08? What part of this budget is allocated to work to expand the supply of skills needed to transform London into a low carbon city?

• 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?