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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Many of my constituents in East London are enterprising, go getting kids, who are improving their school standards. People are making enormous progress, but there are various communities that are stuck. Would you agree with me that it is actually rather naïve of people - not that any are in this room, of course - to think that the Olympic Games will in some way solve all of those entrenched problems in one fell swoop? In other words, the Olympic Games are part of a big process that will last, in some cases, several generations, I think, before we sort...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

That was an easy question, obviously. Try a harder one. Do you have what I might call an economic model as to how the Olympic Games will integrate with the wider regeneration of the area, and how you might, as the LDA, reach into those, harder-to-reach groups? I think giving email lists of 50 names is dramatic, it is maybe a press release, but it is not really a way of doing that.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

One final question then, just to bring it back to London level, and maybe just look at East London as an example, but I think this refers to other Members concerns. Within my constituency I have Newham, Tower Hamlets, obviously beneficiaries from the Games, but Barking and Dagenham as well, who, although they are very positive, are a little bit grumpy as well. They are saying all the action is down the road there. How does the economic model that the LDA and others are working to really benefit us in other parts of London? And, I take it that...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Could you tell us about the work you are doing, if any, to ensure that while, currently, Government is very focused, like being dazzled by headlights, on cost issues, it remains equally focused on the regeneration, the economic wealth creation of the United Kingdom, as well as London, issues flowing from the Games? Maybe other guests could add to that as well.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

There is a delay because of the Government's review which has led them to refuse to consider requests for a designation.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Obviously you will be talking to the new owners about their cooperation as security is a very sensitive issue in terms of aviation. My other question, which I think is a very important one for Londoners, is has there ever been an occasion because of the lack of reimbursement where the police service has taken a decision to provide fewer police to support airport security operations than it otherwise would have done?

• Reference: 2006/0207-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

How is the LDA Olympic role changing with the creation and transfer of responsibilities to the ODA?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I was very keen to ask this question because I was hoping I would get that sort of answer, which is that I think there is a hell of a lot of good work in this area - and let us be very clear this is not a party political question because there are, I think when you are honest about this, Labour boroughs who are good, there are some who are less good, there are Conservative boroughs who are good and there are some who are less good. What worries me in your answer is that, whilst I agree...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I thought perhaps I should start by correcting something that Angie (Bray) said, which is of course that the Conservative Party had two positions on identity cards. I was quite interested in this debate, but I was wondering if we could explore it in another direction in terms of policing, which is about the value and usage of biometric data, and I think I have two questions. The first is whether you think ' and I suspect I know what the answer is ' Londoners should welcome or fear the growing development of biometric testing? For example, whether or not...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Thank you, and on balance do you think this is something that Londoners should welcome, the cautious approach of the MPA, or do you think we should be blazing a trail on this because other crimes might be detected which are currently not being detected?