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• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Do you expect those strands to be fully funded as originally envisaged or will there have to be some cutbacks?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Yes, Chair. I am impressed the Mayor has created another functional body: Bacon for London! I have three areas of questioning - very briefly. The first is you are trying to clutch some sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat, I would suggest. The Government effectively abolished both the budgets and the entities of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) last year, while accepting that City Hall is going to have some economic regeneration capacity. I pay tribute to you personally because I know you have been scrambling in the background to try to persuade it that it made...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

You mentioned the youth priorities would be one of the things the Mayor could inform us about next week. This afternoon some Members of this Assembly are meeting to update ourselves on the Time for Action strands. We do know from the information we have to date that a lot of those programmes have been put on hold because of the concern about funding --

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Yes, Chair. I am impressed the Mayor has created another functional body: Bacon for London! I have three areas of questioning - very briefly. The first is you are trying to clutch some sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat, I would suggest. The Government effectively abolished both the budgets and the entities of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) last year, while accepting that City Hall is going to have some economic regeneration capacity. I pay tribute to you personally because I know you have been scrambling in the background to try to persuade it that it made...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Thank you, Chair. Cruel fate has dictated that I lead on this as well! I am very grateful for your opening comments. Can you tell us what progress you have made in your discussions with the boroughs in particular on how they might be affected, particularly on the planning powers?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

The Mayoral Development Corporation will presumably have to be in conformity with the London Plan?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Jennette Arnold (Deputy Chair): Yes, Chair, thank you. I want to take you back to the area that John was asking you about. Thank you for welcoming the fact that there were some disappointments regarding the LDDC in the fact that it did not deal adequately with the social legacy. What assurances will we have from an MDC to get us the social legacy that is so required within this area? Sir Simon Milton (Deputy Mayor and Chief of Staff): The assurance you have, Jennette, is that the whole purpose of setting this up is to help achieve the convergence...

• Reference: 2007/0065-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

What progress are you making with climate change initiatives?

• Reference: 2007/0066-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

What is the LDA's role in the development of more homes for Londoners? How do you see this changing when Communities England is established?

• Reference: 2007/0067-1
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

How successful has the LDA's childcare initiative been? What lessons has it taught us?