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  • Olympic Parking

    • Reference: 2007/2656
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2007
    It is accepted that one of the main reasons for the failure of the Millennium Dome as a visitor attraction was its car exclusion zone. How would the Olympics succeed in making such an exclusion zone work, when the Dome - with better public transport facilities - failed?

  • Blue Peter presenter

    • Reference: 2007/2658
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2007
    What is the justification for paying the Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq £4500 for her recent appearance at a GLA event?

  • London Deficit

    • Reference: 2007/2663
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2007
    The City of London London/Oxford Economics report (London's Place in the UK Economy 2007-08) calculates the London Deficit to be in the range £7-£17.8 billion. Does the Mayor think it is now time to reassess the calculation of £1-£7 billion made by GLA Economics in 2005 or does he believe that figure remains accurate today?

  • LDA & sponsorship of cultural events (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2007
    Are you happy with that report then, from our Committee?

  • LDA & sponsorship of cultural events (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2007
    Mayor, you have just accused us of spending £15,000; you are outraged and appalled that we should spend £15,000 to look at something which was clearly unacceptable. We gave the LDA, back in April, half a dozen specific areas on which we wanted them to supply information to Deloitte to enable us to then answer those questions. I think Dee Doocey, who is Chair of the Assembly's Economic Development, Culture, Sport and Tourism Committee, will agree with me: we did not get the information and Deloitte did not get the information.

  • LDA & sponsorship of cultural events (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2007
    I asked the LDA on Monday when they came in, 'Will you do this work?' We do not want to have to spend the money; we are a scrutiny body which holds others to account. We do not want to have to put the problems at the LDA right. That is not our role. However, we are having to do that now and we are having to spend that £50,000 because when I asked Manny Lewis he would not agree to do an audit. He said, 'We are looking into it'. He made some particular issue but he did not...

  • LDA & sponsorship of cultural events (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2007
    Mayor, that has nothing to do with monitoring and keeping the process going throughout. Yes, they were inherited projects, but it is clear from all of this that there is no proper oversight. All I am saying to you is: will you not undertake to do that proper audit into these six projects which we, as the scrutiny body, have found wanting so enormously. A cloud hangs over the LDA as long as you do not do that.

  • LDA & sponsorship of cultural events (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2007
    I am astonished by your response, I have to say, as indeed I was astonished by the report. If you read the report or listened to what Manny Lewis [Chief Executive, LDA] said when he came to see us the other day, he said the opposite of what you just said. You said that the LDA told us we will not find anything in an audit that we do not already know. The LDA said the opposite. They said they had failed to supply us with the information that we needed to complete our report. That is what they said...

  • LDA & sponsorship of cultural events (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2007
    We have tried for a year to get this information and have failed to get it. The reason why we have had to put it through a proper audit is because every time we try to get it we are then told - this is what we were told on Monday - 'We do not agree with the conclusions because you do not have all the information'. Therefore our question is, 'Why did you not provide us with the information?'. 'Well, we will do it to an auditor'. That is like madness.

  • LDA & sponsorship of cultural events (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2007
    Of these six projects, separately? To make clear to everybody, to the public, that we are not just throwing money, we do not know what the outputs are and we do not have any measure throughout.