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Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [25]
- Question by: Tony Arbour
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
So you are telling the Assembly that, simply based on the information that you held in your records, on the assumption that all of your records were complete, you were able to come to a conclusion with regard to what Brenda Stern said, that as far as you were concerned there is no case to answer? Would not the obvious thing for you to have done have been to go to the source of the allegations? Is that not an elementary thing to do? Why did you limit your investigation just to the material which you say that you hold?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [37]
- Question by: Bob Blackman
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
So are those the records that the LDA has of email traffic and other aspects?
London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [10]
- Question by: Tony Arbour
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
So you are telling the Assembly that, simply based on the information that you held in your records, on the assumption that all of your records were complete, you were able to come to a conclusion with regard to what Brenda Stern said, that as far as you were concerned there is no case to answer? Would not the obvious thing for you to have done have been to go to the source of the allegations? Is that not an elementary thing to do? Why did you limit your investigation just to the material which you say that you hold?
London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [14]
- Question by: Sally Hamwee
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Further discussions on a broader basis will take place with a more limited number of organisations, is that correct?
London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [23]
- Question by: Sally Hamwee
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Not the rest of the 12 that were looked at?
Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [1]
- Question by: Brian Coleman
- Meeting date: 19 July 2006
Mr Faulkner, has the minimum wage helped or hindered in your view?
Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [2]
- Question by: Angie Bray
- Meeting date: 19 July 2006
I appreciate that the widely used definition of the poverty line is 60% of the median income. How was that originally arrived at, and is that an absolutely fixed definition?
Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [3]
- Question by: Brian Coleman
- Meeting date: 19 July 2006
Can I just come in and ask Mr Ross whether the Mayor has done any work on this? Has the Greater London Authority done any work on this?
Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [4]
- Question by: Valerie Shawcross
- Meeting date: 19 July 2006
I think you used the phrase `extremely excluded', and I would be interested to hear what disaggregated information there is about the people in poverty that we are talking about, because my experience has been that there are some people in our communities, some communities in fact, which are so extremely poor and excluded that I am not sure that the state is even capable of inter-meshing with the levels of poverty that they are experiencing. For example, there are members of the Somalian community in London, of whom probably more than 75% are unemployed, who cannot afford to dress...
Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [5]
- Question by: Nicky Gavron
- Meeting date: 19 July 2006
These families are generally led by women; I wondered how significant you thought the gender pay-gap in London was, which is increasing - widening - here, whereas it isn't in the rest of the country. I understand that the most typical job for a woman here is paid at £5.30 an hour, whereas the most typical job for a man is paid at £17.50 an hour.