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• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

): I am sure Members will have detailed questions on that wider experience and the work you are doing to keep the capital moving and so forth. All that good work though will be lost if the message does not get out that the wider Games experience has been a success. So I just wanted to start by concentrating on the narrow but important point of the non-accredited media and your arrangements around that, and I am sure the Members will widen it from there. As I understand it, there is about 20,000 or so expected on the accredited side...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

I don't know whether this question would be for Neale or Vince. I want to pick up the issue of all these events that are going to be happening across London and I know there is the London Events Coordination Calendar and there is the Culture Diary. I think, in your recent answer to my colleague Dee Doocey, you said there were already over 4,000 events in the Culture Diary. However, you closed those diaries at the end of March, which seems a bit strange to me when clearly people would still be planning their events. I am told, looking...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Sorry, can I stop you there. There are new powers for boroughs to monitor them, but there is no new money for boroughs to do it. Without the funding it is very difficult to see how boroughs can monitor Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs).

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

No, but the Mayor can make representations to the Government to try and explain that there is no point having a strategy that says, 'Boroughs will look after HMOs and will monitor them' if there is no money in order for them to do it. So, what I am asking is that the Mayor is much more proactive in pushing central government for local government's case, for them to get some more money, and working much more in tandem with boroughs, rather than at the moment there tends to be certainly a perception that the Mayor is one side and...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

My concern about this whole thing - the overall concern - is that I think it is very easy to say, 'We have decided that boroughs should do (a), (b), (c) and (d)'. It sounds good: 'We will therefore say we will have 50% of this and 70/30 mix', but if boroughs do not have the money in order to do this, there is no point saying, 'The Mayor's Strategy is that the boroughs will deliver', because the boroughs really do need money in order to deliver. With the best will in the world they cannot do it if they...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Surely the emphasis ought to be on providing better accommodation for older people, which might persuade them to move on from under-occupying homes - one in four homes in London are under-occupied - and therefore trying to free up at the top, which will eventually free up at the bottom, for the hostels? There does not seem to be too much emphasis on that. I am concerned that nothing that you have said has led me to believe that the problem is going to be addressed, of people with mental problems in hostels not having appropriate support and accommodation.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Sorry, can I cut in, Neale. I do not accept what you are saying because, again, you are saying the same thing: it is up to boroughs to provide the revenue. Boroughs are squeezed all the time on funding and if they have not got the money they cannot provide the revenue, and just putting in a strategy that says, 'boroughs will provide it', is not going to help. Can I move on to overcrowding. You talked about overcrowding in your opening remarks. I think the estimate is that there are 260,000 children in homes that have got not enough...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

I have got very little time left, so can I finally ask you about student accommodation. There was very little in the Strategy about what the Mayor is doing about student accommodation in London. I am sure you are aware that young people are at risk from things like dodgy wiring, faulty gas heaters and cowboy landlords. Is the Mayor working with student union representatives and universities to address this?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Sorry, I was asking is he putting pressure on central government to do so.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Actually I want to come in on exactly this point but before I do, can I say, since there has been some hostile questioning, if I can put it that way, from other parts of the Chamber, that in relation to the additional powers to the Mayor we, from our side, have supported this. We are very pleased to see renewed or additional vigour on this subject. It is the number one issue of concern to Londoners in the polls, certainly the ones I have seen. On this question of the Capital Moves, can you just be clear. You have...