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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Many of my constituents in East London are enterprising, go getting kids, who are improving their school standards. People are making enormous progress, but there are various communities that are stuck. Would you agree with me that it is actually rather naïve of people - not that any are in this room, of course - to think that the Olympic Games will in some way solve all of those entrenched problems in one fell swoop? In other words, the Olympic Games are part of a big process that will last, in some cases, several generations, I think, before we sort...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

That was an easy question, obviously. Try a harder one. Do you have what I might call an economic model as to how the Olympic Games will integrate with the wider regeneration of the area, and how you might, as the LDA, reach into those, harder-to-reach groups? I think giving email lists of 50 names is dramatic, it is maybe a press release, but it is not really a way of doing that.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

One final question then, just to bring it back to London level, and maybe just look at East London as an example, but I think this refers to other Members concerns. Within my constituency I have Newham, Tower Hamlets, obviously beneficiaries from the Games, but Barking and Dagenham as well, who, although they are very positive, are a little bit grumpy as well. They are saying all the action is down the road there. How does the economic model that the LDA and others are working to really benefit us in other parts of London? And, I take it that...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Could you tell us about the work you are doing, if any, to ensure that while, currently, Government is very focused, like being dazzled by headlights, on cost issues, it remains equally focused on the regeneration, the economic wealth creation of the United Kingdom, as well as London, issues flowing from the Games? Maybe other guests could add to that as well.

• Reference: 2006/0207-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

How is the LDA Olympic role changing with the creation and transfer of responsibilities to the ODA?

• Reference: 2004/0159-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

How will the recent changes at the LDA assist you in: - Making the case for London - Attracting inward investment - Better targeting equalities as a regeneration priority - Managing area interventions better .

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

If I could pick on one of those areas and make your life a little harder, then: graduate unemployment levels in minority ethnic communities. Much has been said about this and yet the levels of unemployment remain massively higher than in the white communities, for example. What examples of success can you give in that area, and to what extent is it a priority that you can address? Alternately, is it an issue which you, in the end, accept that you cannot make a difference on and that you should withdraw from?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Can you point to an initiative where you have actually made a difference in that?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Can you explain how the LDA will ensure a bad Mayor, unlike our present excellent Mayor of course, who gave guidance which was not helpful to the LDA's corporate objectives, how such unhelpful guidance would be managed by the LDA? Do you have the systems in place to ensure that you make good, rigorous, forward-looking, consistent policy decisions?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

I want to give you an opportunity in explaining what drives the LDA's agenda, to explain what is wrong with the argument that says you are the `Mayor's chequebook" and how the relationship between your business plan and unforeseen events is managed so that the LDA"s resources are used to maximise opportunities such as the Olympics or the Ford decision to stop manufacturing.