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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: 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...

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

OK. So the two things they are asking for are, firstly that there should be specific reference, so that point we are clear on. The second thing they are saying is that the Mayor should remove the target for 25% re-lets by 2012 from his draft Housing Strategy. As I understand it, their concern is that if they do not, as it were, get enough for their people they will not have the incentive to bring forward schemes and so forth. I have to say I am in two minds about that because I am politically old enough to remember...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Just on this code, the very welcome offer: does it currently cover sustainable development issues and the other sorts of issues around wages, labour rights, and so forth?

• Reference: 2002/0319-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

How effective have the Mayor's efforts been in lobbying Government to help in overcoming London's housing crisis? .

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

The second point I wanted to raise with you earlier was the planning system. Now, you have just mentioned commercial developments. Can you tell us what the implications are of the fact that the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill, published last week, will not include the concept of carrots, but will include new guidance on how to make the planning obligation system of negotiations between planners and developers more transparent and simple. Do we know what that involves and how does that reflect what the Mayor has been lobbying for?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Thank you for that reply. You will be aware that I have been pushing the Mayor because of this huge gap between the needs, on the demand side of the equation, and the supply, even on fairly optimistic assumptions, I have been pushing the Mayor on that. And his response could be typified by, "Well, I"m doing what I can'. And I've been saying that's not good enough, he should be lobbying hard on behalf of London. You're right on the money. Some of it is coming through. Can I just pick you up on the Challenge Fund on how...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Do you know exactly how much?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Sticking with the money, when you came with Duncan Barrie to the Economic and Social Development Committee, we examined this issue and what was said then was, and I quote, "In general terms, we are looking for an increase in investment for our total programme from public subsidy in the realm of two to three times the current level if we are to meet the full housing needs backlog over ten years". Welcome though the increases have been, we are nowhere near a doubling or trebling of the amount of public subsidy, which is the level that we need. What...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

I absolutely agree with your analysis and I think all political parties should recognise the lack of attention to affordable housing - we all talk about education and I think it affects all political parties. We do have a Mayor who is supposedly not in a political party, and my whole point is he should be leading the scale of debate on affordable housing to shift the national debate in the direction you're implying. That's for him and not for you. Roger Evans: You made much of the investment pre-1979 in social housing at £11 billion to £12 billion. I...