Search questions

• Reference: 2008/0587
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Given that up to 40% of food packaging still cannot be recycled, what efforts have you made, as part of your Food Strategy, to work with the supermarkets towards achieving closed loop recycling and materials systems in their business practices?

• Reference: 2008/0632
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Since you have been so insistent in the past that LFEPA's board should be representative of the community it serves why would you have "grave" concerns about the appointment of a black woman to the board?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Just to clear up the point about when the report was released I think it went to the Board at 9 am or so and the press release came out 3 pm or 4 pm. I could not get the report itself off the LDA website until close to 7 pm on a Friday evening.

• Reference: 2007/0084-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

Does LFEPA's target to spend 8% of fire fighters' time on community safety work adequately reflect the importance we should place on fire prevention?

• Reference: 2007/0385
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

In your answer to question number 2842/2006 you provided figures on under-occupancy of housing from 2001. Given the powers that will transfer to you under the current GLA Bill, will your office agree to collect data on under-occupancy regularly, and could you please confirm when the next set of figures will be available?

• Reference: 2006/2458
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

After Mayor's Question Time in October, you told me that Jack Lemley had had to scale back his workload due to health concerns and that was the real reason for his departure from the ODA. In light of recent reported comments, do you wish to change or add to that statement?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

It is obviously crucial that we get this brownfield development right if we are to protect greenfield and indeed the green belt. The figures I have in the decade before the LDA was set up, so in the 1990s, we lost the equivalent of Richmond Park in greenfield development and in this decade we have been losing St James's Park every year, that is development on greenfield sites. So, with that context, do you think that the the LDA's annual target of, I think is it 50 or 55 hectares a year, is adequate?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

I have a question on this very topic later, question 136, if your notes help you; still on the same subject of tackling barriers to employment and unemployment. It simply does not ring true to me what you have been saying as to why there is such disparity between London and the rest of the country. If you talk to your colleagues in Liverpool or Newcastle or even single-industry towns like Bradford or Oldham, they will be green with envy with the opportunities we have in London. So, can you return to this question of this gap between employment rates...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

An awful lot of that is migration and that is people coming because they perceive that the jobs are here. So, intuitively that should not be working. If the jobs are not here, that should not be driving migration. They should actually be going out of London to where the jobs are. There is stronger jobs growth outside London.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

I agree we have those problems. I am not sure they are so extremely different from other parts of the country. But against that, we have massive opportunities in London that single-industry towns, where the industries closed in the north of the country, do not have. In terms of the LDA, whatever the causes of it, the facts are there, that it is getting worse in London compared to the rest of the country. In terms of what the LDA is doing about it, your snapshot is very stark. The ones with red blobs are in this area and all...