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• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Picking up on Valerie's (Shawcross) point, I certainly agree a borough- by-borough list would be extremely useful. In terms of the Ward panels it does seem to be extremely patchy, even within boroughs, from one Ward to the next. Whilst I agree a one size fits all approach of engagement is not going to be right across London, there do need to be some sort of minimum standards in terms of engagement and democratic structures and input from local councillors and so on, that does not seem to be happening. So will you be working with the boroughs to actually...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Will the review also include assessments for the value of brownfield sites for biodiversity, flood management and community and recreational use as well as just development use, because one of points we made in our scrutiny report was that actually brownfield sites sometimes have far more amenity value and environmental value than greenfield sites?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

At the moment how does the LDA ensure that the community value and the environmental value of brownfield land is taken into account in development decisions currently?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

OK. Our research a year ago showed that around 11 per cent of brownfield land in London had no planning permission on it at all, so that is an area around the size of Hyde Park that at the moment no-one has got a clue what to do with. Is that figure still roughly the same according to your information?

• Reference: 2006/0129-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

In response to the Environment Committee's Dereliction of Duty? report on brownfield development, the LDA committed to 'review of information on brownfield sites in London to establish the length of time sites have remained vacant and their potential for future use'. Can you update me on progress on this review?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I appreciate your answers but they do beg an awful lot of questions at this stage about the Government's proposals, and the Government`s proposals are now fairly well advanced. For Britain's most senior police officer to be asking such fundamental questions about whether they will be effective or not, or how they will be used, does beg some serious questions about whether we are going down the right road with these.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

On the issue of carrying ID cards, and I was very reassured by your comments that you do not want to go down the route at all of having to produce your ID on demand in the street, if we do not have a `stop and produce- approach to this, then how can they be effective?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

): If it is not the whole answer, then basically we are just providing another tool for people to counterfeit, and it is not going to tackle any of the problems of identity theft, of fraudulent access to benefits, or whatever, is it?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Finally can I just ask a question about the cost of them? Do you think that that provides good value for money - several billion pounds and then the cost per person? Do you think that provides good value for money in terms of tackling fraud or serious crime or terrorism or whatever, or would you prefer that money to be made available to you for other things to spend on, in terms of tackling death, crime, etc.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Some of it could, if we were not to go down that route, and could be theoretically spent a lot more effectively.