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• 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?

• Reference: 2007/0044-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Who is going to benefit from the 'London Youth Offer' announced on 20th September 2008?

• 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

You anticipated my next question which was, if we count the Olympics towards that target, so the real issue, as it were, is for non-Olympic area target for the rest of London that we need to highlight and make sure that that is sufficiently ambitious to give us the brownfield site to protect the greenfield and then green belt.

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

Can I just make one final suggestion which is, the danger is that you look at the individual schemes and say, `On that scheme we remediated pollution, on that scheme we had renewable energy' and there is no standing back to say, `Well overall, when we look at our total outputs as an agency, we can see whether we are making progress towards sustainable development'. So, some sort of annual snapshot stocktake would help and would help external stakeholders as well.

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

In a sense that is the ideal in the ideal world. One would invest in an environmental technology business that creates the jobs, that gets a long-term unemployed person into work and so forth, so you get the virtuous circle of win win win. But in the real world there are choices and what I want to flush out is really how the Agency and the Board, perhaps from the top, reconciles some of the tensions. Let me take an example of affordable housing. I think from the statistics I have last year, there were something like 1,500 new affordable...

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

I agree that is the ideal. I just think in the real world that is not always possible, certainly in the time frames that one is dealing with. Can you tell me what the role of the Health and Sustainability Advisory Group is, which I think is a new innovation and how does that fit into your governance structure?