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

Can I just make a final point, and then I am going to hand over to Damian (Hockney). I have to say ' call me a cynic ' but a lot of people would say that you are driving these businesses as close to the deadline as you possibly can by not having meaningful conversations. One letter of contact is hardly what I would call being in negotiations. Of course, if the deadline gets reached, presumably, down comes the CPO on terms of your choice, rather than theirs. That would be a cynic's view.

• 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: 2002/0790
• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This morning because of the Fire Service dispute, I intend to use my powers under Standing Order 2.40 first to take an item of urgent business, which is a statement from the Chair of LFEPA and to vary the order of business to take that first. I imagine the Mayor, when he arrives, will also want to say something on this matter, as part of his update. What I intend to do is to allow 25 minutes of questions on the Mayor's update during which period questions will also be addressed to the Chair of...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

Would the Chair of LFEPA accept that from the Liberal Democrats side we have been supportive of the basic position that more money is possible and is justified but only in return for modernised working practices? And if so, will she accept that too few people in the public, in the media, actually understand the extent of the current practices and what is required? Will she agree to make it clearer exactly what changes we are asking for in terms of working practices? Because most people simply do not understand how inflexible they are. As far as the Mayor is...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 November 2002

I read in the newspapers that the Bain Report terms of reference were not actually agreed by the union and that they were very unhappy with the terms of the report. Now, the result of the report is absolutely dependent upon the terms that you set at the beginning. Is it true that the union was unhappy with it?