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  • Recent changes at the LDA (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Perhaps to address another part of your presentation, which links to this, you talked about the need for the LDA to have credibility with business, but are there not occasions when business has to have credibility with Londoners and the LDA needs to say that the employment, training and mentoring practices of the private sector in London are short-sighted, are disadvantaging London and, in the end, will disadvantage those businesses? I am being quite strident in pursuing that. Perhaps your Chair should answer that.

  • Recent changes at the LDA (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Is that a priority for the LDA?

  • Recent changes at the LDA (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Which other priority is a lesser priority as a consequence of that? What I am trying to get my head around is the extent to which" Obviously in life you have to pursue a lot of relatively easy targets and priorities, but you need to take some challenging ones on now. I think, and I think a lot of my colleagues and constituents believe, that that is a really vital one for London and we have not done enough on it yet.

  • Skills (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004

  • LDA Agenda (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    My question is on joined-up government and all these relationships with the ODPM, the DCMS, the DTI, GOL and all the rest of it. Did anybody inform you of the Government's new scheme to move some 80,000 jobs out of London? In a sense, there is a contradiction between the long-term plan that London is going to increase, and the Government actually trying to cut down the increase by moving jobs out of London. Was there any consultation with the LDA on this?

  • LDA Agenda (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    The thesis behind this question is that the Assembly has a statutory responsibility to hold the LDA to account, but you are not a creature of regional government; there are these multiple accountabilities. If we are to do our job in holding you to account effectively, we need to see how these conflicts are working, and we talked offline about the difficulty of, for example, making available publicly a Government Office for London quarterly assessment of you. I think we need to explore further how to see that relationship working better with government. Moving on to the second question relating...

  • LDA Agenda (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    In relation to the mayoral interventions, either directly or through advisors, at the Economic and Social Development Committee you said that there had never been a time when you had actually refused a request. There had been vigorous discussions, but the answer had never been `no'.

  • LDA Agenda (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Yes

  • LDA spend (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    On this leisure agenda, how can you ensure that pursuing that leisure agenda actually meets the long-term leisure needs of the local community and not just the short-term needs of an Olympics bid?

  • LDA spend (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    What about priorities in terms of funding, resources and geographical spread and so on?