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• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Unmesh Desai AM: Good morning, Lyn. Good morning, Lord Hendy. If I could ask you, Lyn, how can the return of the planning powers to local boroughs be used as an opportunity to change the way that local residents can be engaged in planning earlier in the process?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon, panel. My question is about the demands of policing mega events and it is to you, Lyn. The policing operation for the Olympics was huge and a success. However, one of the problems with policing mega events, as a Government report made clear in 2020, is the coordination between multiple agencies. With the current and anticipated increasing footfall in the Stratford area with the ABBA [Voyage] Arena and the proposed MSG Sphere, how are you working with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the British Transport Police (BTP) and other agencies to meet...

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Nicky Gavron AM: Thank you. Good morning, Peter and David. I want to ask a question about the convergence framework and the target that was set for it. To give a bit of context - and the first question is really addressed to Peter - you were there Peter when we were all thinking about the bid for the Olympics. The primary driver was to use it as a catalyst to regenerate inner east London where we had the biggest concentration of multiply deprived communities in the whole of Western Europe. We were haunted by the fact - and you...