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• Reference: 2011/0076-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Simon, you wanted to make an opening statement. Thank you very much for coming along.

• Reference: 2011/0077-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Dee Doocey (Chair): Simon, you wanted to make an opening statement. Thank you very much for coming along.

• Reference: 2011/0078-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Dee Doocey (Chair): We are now moving on to the session on the Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC). Can I start off the session by asking you, Simon, please can you explain the Mayor's proposals to create a MDC for the Olympic Park area?

• Reference: 2006/0138-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Given that there is a target of 1050 new Childcare Spaces (capital funding) between 2005-2008, why does the LDA Corporate Performance Report only include target figures for Childcare Places (i.e. under the Childcare Affordability Programme)?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

My final question is about procurement, which leads neatly on to it. The draft Procurement Principles mention a number of key criteria that have got to be met including a list of things like community benefit, local labour and London's Living Wage, which I know the Mayor in particular is very committed to. Could you just explain why the first contract that you have dished out, the one for under-grounding the power lines, you have not managed to get the contractor to agree to pay the living wage and that, according to the ODA, they have just agreed to pay...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

That is fine. I was surprised that the LCCI told us that 80% of their members employed 10 or less people and that that was the business profile in London as a whole. I think perhaps more needs to be done to make sure that those people are being included because a lot of businesses that employ less than 10 people will not have somebody dedicated to go on the website and to look for all the information. It is not easy to find information. It is quite difficult. Can I just mention targets? Manny (Lewis) mentioned earlier ' and...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

I am very pleased, Marc, that you seem to have taken on board an awful lot of what happened at the committee meeting last week. Although it is certainly true that the LCCI said that it was happy with the information it had got, they were referring to a meeting you had had the night before. Certainly, when Bob Blackman (AM) and I went to see them a couple of weeks ago, they were complaining long and loud to people around the table that they had had no information at all. I am delighted to see that you have picked...

• Reference: 2005/0447-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

What is the LDA doing to ensure that there will be long lead times for tendering for contracts?

• Reference: 2005/0438-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

What are the predicted interest costs for any borrowing that the LDA is going to undertake with regard to the Olympics?

• Reference: 2005/0439-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

What are the projected profits from sale of land which the LDA has purchased on the Olympic Park site after the Olympics?