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• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

OK. When can we expect a review to publish then? Is that still by the end of this year?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Do you think, as a result of this review, that your appraisal process and review of the options may actually get more robust?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

It is obviously crucial that we get this brownfield development right if we are to protect greenfield and indeed the green belt. The figures I have in the decade before the LDA was set up, so in the 1990s, we lost the equivalent of Richmond Park in greenfield development and in this decade we have been losing St James's Park every year, that is development on greenfield sites. So, with that context, do you think that the the LDA's annual target of, I think is it 50 or 55 hectares a year, is adequate?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

No, but the fact is, to organise this, to keep aware of what is going on, it is going to need considerably more than £50,000. In fact you are going to need nearer £300,000, possibly more and I am concerned that this is not being reflected in the budget. It is all very well to have fine words. This is what we are finding constantly here, that we hear promises and fine words from people, but it is about the delivery and that equates actually with spending some money on it.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

That has begun. I am glad to hear about your wholehearted commitment to this because it is bigger than the Olympics, OK, because of a legacy of hundreds of years, if we do not all flood and die before then. But you put energy into it last year. We had a small budget. What is the budget line this next year?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

So, 50 per cent sounds to me like a very large number of employers still to be agreed on relocation.

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Just over two thousand jobs under threat. Is that fair?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Right, so everyone has got a relocation offer but it may not be acceptable?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Can we just come back to the first project of laying the power lines, and I will come on to the CPO process in a minute? Is the project going according to budget?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Including the tunnelling?