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• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Chair): Yes, thank you. Can I start my question to Sir Peter? It is going back to a Plenary Assembly meeting that we had on 2 November 2017. The issue was raised there about the timeline which you are working to in order to return the planning powers that you either see as being on loan or borrowed from the Olympic boroughs of Hackney, Waltham Forest, Newham and Tower Hamlets. I have met with local councillors representing wards in all of these boroughs and spoken to some senior representatives and a group of residents, and they...

• Reference: 2019/17040
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Your Ten Year Plan and Five Year Strategy both contain policies to improve inclusion for Londoners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). How is this work progressing, including but not limited to your physical accessibility programme?

• Reference: 2019/17041
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

You have set targets for a diverse LLDC workforce, including BAME people, women and people with disabilities. How did you determine these targets and what progress has been made towards achieving them?

• Reference: 2019/17042
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

How are you ensuring that your work with local schools benefits the most vulnerable children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)?

• Reference: 2019/20670
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Chair): We will now go to section 4 of the agenda, and that is the question and answer session on the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC). We have with us today Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC, and Ms Lyn Garner, Chief Executive of the LLDC. Our questions to you both will be on the work and policies of the LLDC. Welcome to the meeting. To give a brief explanation, there are three lead-off questions and Assembly Members may ask supplementary questions after each question has been answered. Before asking the first question, however...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

I wonder if you might just draw down a little bit and say is your planning based on a sector response. Listening to you, yes, you have all this equipment, but we are just used to seeing fire engines moving from A to B. How would you respond to a sector? Are you saying that you have enough equipment and resources within a given sector, and so that that would, in itself, support a catastrophic incident in that sector?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

A lot of your learning came about after 9/11. Have you been around the table with your New York colleagues recently? I am just trying to get a sense of whether the equipment we have bought since 9/11 is really state-of-the-art. Is that something for the next two years, or should we be finding ways of working with people from Spain, New York, more so, because clearly, things move on in other worlds?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Last night in my constituency there was a major meeting because of concerns of movement of ordinary engines. What can you say to Londoners today in terms of your readiness from your service and working in collaboration with colleagues. Are you ready?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Surely you have learnt from that exercise and tested, and what did you use at that exercise, because you are saying ' in answer to question 363/2004 ' you are waiting for more equipment. What is happening now?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2004

Excuse me, did you not recognise this 17 years ago during the King's Cross fire? Are you saying that we have not moved on from there, and is it not about time that something was resolved, and you could all speak together?