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• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Still, even in what you have just described, you have not mentioned any interaction with the people on the ground ' the businesses ' at this stage. You are talking about consulting the boroughs and consulting other stakeholders. I would have thought that at this stage, you need the information from the people who are going to be looking for the contracts, and who are going to be producing it. I find it quite difficult to get information. If I could, I will address the next bit to Tony (Winterbottom, Executive Director, Regeneration & Development, LDA), rather than you. Tony...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I know. I am not saying that you are not going to write wonderful strategy papers saying how marvellously the whole thing will work. What I am actually looking for is for you to talk to people, talk to London companies, and engage in debate with them. It is the same thing; it is the blue-sky thinking, the strategies, but where is the action?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I am terribly sorry to interrupt you, but the problem is you are probably not aware that the longer you speak, the less time I have.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I know, but you said in a radio interview recently, `We are the Mayor's agency for businesses and jobs in London, and for the first couple of years, we will be doing most of the work in respect of the Olympic Games.' Now, you cannot make a statement like that on the radio in a national radio programme, and then not expect local companies to think that they can ring up us or ring up the LDA and say, `What is the position? How can we get some of these jobs?'

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I know he did.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

To save time here, I would be grateful if we could be sent that costing assessment, and if you also have any assessment of the costing, as you rightly say, of the social and health infrastructure, that would be helpful

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

That would be helpful for the Assembly to have. The final question I wanted to ask was this: given that much of the infrastructure and demands do not stop at the Greater London boundary, what joint work has been done with, for example, Essex and Kent County Councils and the surrounding regions to see (a) what can be done to make sure that the infrastructure provision is properly aligned and (b) what economies of scale and what joint lobbying work can be done to advance the Gateway issue?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

It would be very helpful to have the costings as far as they go on infrastructure issues. How advanced are we in terms of who is going to pay for all of this?