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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: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

I am glad to hear that because, of course, Tottenham and Edmonton have got some of the highest worklessness rates in London. I want to just briefly move on to the London Skills and Employment Board. Do you have a timetable yet as to when this strategy may be developed?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

I would like to ask firstly about Assisted Area status. You know my concerns with that, especially with developing part of the Lea Valley. I know the Chair sent a helpful letter in the summer and this Assembly also lobbied on this. Do we have any news, first of all, as to where those negotiations are going?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

I think in tackling worklessness, it is obviously important that you have children coming out of school and training and retraining for adults to meet the needs of the workplace, but I am wondering presumably you will be consulting with business, about what business needs and a strategy but will you also be consulting with young people as well? I know from some of the work we have done on the Economic Development Committee that the views of young people often is that perhaps academia is not the best place for many of them and that they should be given...

• 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.