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• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Well, it is not really. Out of how many? Out of how many?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Thank you. My concern is that your response is also filled with words like `initiatives' and `best practice.' I am just thinking from the point of view of SMEs, small building companies basically, which have to comply ' and I understand why ' with all the relevant details of the Contract and Procurement Code. For example, they have to show adherence to sustainable construction practices. They have to adopt a suitable supply-chain procurement policy, and they have to apply sustainable management techniques for energy, waste, and water. That is before they put their name on the top of the form...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

This is a question to Mary (Reilly). It is about the training and employment framework that you have mentioned already. I recently visited Canary Wharf, where a training centre was set up on site by the Canary Wharf Group with the Universities & Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and with Lewisham College, which seems to me to be an excellent example of good practice about how workers who have low skills can go on site and, during working hours, get that extra help they need. I know that UCAS is pressing for a similar site to be set up in the...

• Reference: 2005/0321-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

The LDA offered a firm in Marshgate Lane a site in Leyton to relocate to. The LDA bought the Leyton site a year ago at £886,667 per acre. They are now asking £1.1 million per acre. That's an increase in value of 24%. One of the companies in East London being forced to relocate bought their current site at Marshgate Lane in 2000 for £1.075 million and spent £300,000 on various improvements, making a total cost of just under £1.4 million. The LDA have offered £1.5 million for it, five years later. So the LDA are saying The Marshgate Lane...

• Reference: 2005/0304-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Can you give an update on the negotiations with local businesses in the Lower Lea Valley? How many have settled, how many will need to be Compulsory purchased?

• Reference: 2005/0333-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How many local firms in East London do you think will be able to meet the requirements to fit within the LOCOG's Sustainable Management System? What plans are being made to ensure that local companies are provided with practical help and guidance so that they a) understand the tender requirements; b) are provided with training and support to complete the necessary tender documents?

• Reference: 2001/0079-1
• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What role will he play in the drawing up and implementation of the Energy Strategy? .

• Reference: 2001/0080-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

To what extent will the work of the Architecture and Urbanism Unit be supported by consultants? How much will this cost and what steps will be taken to ensure that conflicts of interest do not arise? .

• Reference: 2001/0081-1
• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What place does the River Thames have in your vision for urban design in London? .

• Reference: 2001/0082-1
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What visible public space improvements can Londoners expect to see in the next three years, as a result of the work of the Architecture and Urbanism Unit? .