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• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

While it is encouraging to hear that fresh moves are afoot to review the master development plan because it does seem to be totally out of kilter with the direction of transport planning, does that mean that the developments in phase one are now totally up for grabs because there is quite a lot of expansion? Is it appropriate that City Airport flights which fly to Paris and Brussels should continue? They seem most inappropriate now we have got a high-speed Eurostar line, which I understand clocked two hours and three minutes to Paris in September.

• 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?