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• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

Thank you. I think you have just demonstrated the point, actually. You've given a reasonably full answer on tourism, which is something we should have had before. If it wasn't Functional Bodies Question Time today, would we have had that information? The point about this whole debate, and I think you're getting it cross-party actually, is the feeling that you stick out like a sore thumb in your attitude towards openness and accountability, not just to the public. I would like these meetings all to be public and I would like all the information. What you've said today should have...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

I share a number of the concerns that Tony's outlined and if we can perhaps particularly focus on the website. We're supposed to be, as the GLA family, into open government and the web approach was something that was an ethos that the Mayor and others agree is a great way of people having access. However, if you go onto the LDA website it seems, as Tony says, that you control what comes out in terms of press releases and I haven't yet managed to find the minutes on the website. Maybe I'm just not very good at browsing. But...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

Michael, rumours are flying around about the large amount of jobs that have been lost to date. Can you not give us an assurance and tell us are we talking thousands of jobs to date or what have you got that you can share with us today?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

Have you ear-marked any sites for which you have considered the possibility of using this method?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

I'm sure we would all like to know if you intend activating these powers and whether, in fact, these properties are in habitation at the present time and why you would consider using compulsory purchase orders for the greater gain of what? Because local authorities very rarely now use them. It's usually only for road building. But I would be interested to know in which area you would consider using it.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

My information is quite wrong then and I apologise about that but I was informed that you had in fact used some compulsory purchase orders.

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

Thank you for that very detailed answer. I think maybe we will have to agree to disagree on the London Plan. I know it's something that Assembly members generally are very concerned about. You touched on the SDS. How do you see the two strategies - the Economic Development Strategy and the SDS then - dove-tailing in together as we go through the draft? Perhaps you could specifically tell us what work is actually being done on those to make sure they do dove-tail in together? One problem the Assembly has been very concerned about is that strategies just don't...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

Can I say I am very happy to see the audit report? I have to say I never actually received my own copy, even though I asked the question originally. I was given a copy by a member of the press. I'm glad we have a free press that somehow gets access to this information. But I was very delighted when the Chair, George Barlow, indicated early on that he was going to seek an internal audit. But this doesn't seem to square with the letter I received from the Chief Executive when I made the initial enquiry about how...