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• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

My question follows on from what Tony Arbour and Bob Blackman were saying. You said that you have interviewed existing staff but you have not interviewed staff who no longer work for the organisation, one of whom, Maxine Jones, also made some allegations. There were two whistleblowers: Brenda Stern and Maxine Jones. You have said, 'The review has found that this allegation is incorrect'. In order to reach that conclusion it would seem to me that you would have to talk to both of those two people.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

My question follows on from what Tony Arbour and Bob Blackman were saying. You said that you have interviewed existing staff but you have not interviewed staff who no longer work for the organisation, one of whom, Maxine Jones, also made some allegations. There were two whistleblowers: Brenda Stern and Maxine Jones. You have said, 'The review has found that this allegation is incorrect'. In order to reach that conclusion it would seem to me that you would have to talk to both of those two people.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

My question is to Manny Lewis really. I want to ask you. What is your plan B, regarding the Manor Gardens Allotments? Because the architects clearly overlooked them in the original plan, Waltham Forest do not want them, and I would now like to know what you intend to do.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Extension of Carnival? So, the Carnival happens in Notting Hill and you have your extension in Hyde Park, and according to your website `We work to present a powerful, consistent and relevant image of London as a vibrant place to live, study, visit and do business' and that is what the Caribbean Showcase does?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Thank you. It says on the LDA's website that the LDA's objectives are regenerating London, supporting people, that is removing barriers to employment, encouraging business, and marketing and promoting London. Yet you spent £215,000, approximately 70 per cent of the cost of the Caribbean Showcase, putting it on in Hyde Park on the same day as the Notting Hill Carnival. That does not seem to add up and make sense to me.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

That plan has not yet been approved, I understand, in Waltham Forest.

• Reference: 2006/0226-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

What criteria were used when the LDA decided to sponsor the Mayor's Caribbean Showcase event at a cost to the taxpayer of £215,000 (£120,000 directly and £95,000 through its offshoot "Creative London")?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Thank you for that. All the businesses I have spoken to, including of course Pullmans et al, have all said that there is no circumstance in which they -- they are clearly aware and they had never asked. Can you confirm then that some businesses have asked for amounts of four, five, six times the amount? Have they, because you have not actually answered that question? You said they have aspirations but the point is that the Mayor said that people ' in a very public statement in the Sun newspaper ' that they are asking, many businesses are asking...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Just very briefly: can you possibly confirm something for me? You mentioned obviously the uplift to £1 billion and I was not quite sure whether that was an uplift from the £743 million to £1 billion or for just the £478 million.

• Reference: 2005/0590-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Can the LDA confirm that no Marshgate Lane business has attempted to negotiate a deal based on the value that the land is likely to command (ie four or five times greater than the current market value of the premises) once it has been acquired by the LDA?