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• Reference: 2007/2594
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Do you think that the restrictions on legal advice, associated with the Legal Services Commission's new Criminal Defence Service Direct service, which is basically a call centre with staff not necessarily qualified to the highest level, are compatible with the rights to a fair trial, including independent legal advice, under Article 6 of the European Convention Human Rights?

• Reference: 2007/2595
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Do you think it is right that defendants are compelled to use Criminal Defence Service Direct where a conviction would amount to a loss of their "good character" and therefore the implications would be that the offence would not be seen as "minor" either by the wider community or by their employers?

• Reference: 2007/2596
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

To what extent has a race impact assessment been conducted in relation to London's use of Criminal Defence Service Direct, bearing in mind that the contract supplier employs a disproportionate amount of ex police officers who are also white and male and who could be regarded as having little or no knowledge or empathy of minority communities, women or people with disabilities?

• Reference: 2007/2597
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Was the decision to award a grant of up to £4.3 million to the British Fashion Council for London Fashion Week approved by the LDA board?

• Reference: 2007/2598
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Your press release which launched the London Youth Offer on 20th September 2007 said: 'The £60 million funding package will run over two years, £20 million will come from the Mayor's London Development Agency and £40 million from the Department for Children, Schools and Families.' Yet at Mayor's Question Time on 17th October 2007 you said: 'The Government is talking about £40 million per year, I'm talking about £20 million a year.' Which is it - £20 million in total or £20 million per year?

• Reference: 2007/0038-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

The difficulties of delivering a skills and employment legacy from the Games are well documented. Can you update us on the progress being made in this area?

• Reference: 2007/0077-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

What are you doing to ensure that an appropriate range of different kinds of housing will be available to Londoners in each of the boroughs?

• Reference: 2007/2278
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Are Londoners in Hackney any safer than those in Richmond for having 20 times as many CCTV cameras in their borough?

• Reference: 2007/2282
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

Although the £20million over two years from the London Development Agency towards funding the London Youth Offer is welcome, can you confirm that this is not a one-off tranche of money, and that the London Youth Offer will continue beyond 2009/10?

• Reference: 2007/2284
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 October 2007

A/What is the estimate of the total amount of money the LDA needs to borrow to fund the Olympics? B/ What period does its borrowing cover? C/ What rate of interest will the LDA have to pay on borrowings?