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• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Right, I have given you 45 email addresses from these people, who will allow you to reach the parts that you have not reached previously. What I would actually like is a commitment from you that you will change whatever you are doing, so that you get down to these people and you talk to them and find out what they want.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

There is nothing like having high aspirations! My concern is that I am not sure that the jobs that are going to be available are going to do what it is everyone is trying to achieve, ie get the people who have perhaps never worked, into jobs. My view on this was made more concrete, if you like, when I chaired a meeting in this building, which your officers attended at my invitation, and there were 45 community leaders in the room representing 15,000 of the most deprived in society. Not one of them had heard of the LDA. They...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Sorry, Manny, I do not mean to be rude, but I am on a time limit, and any answers you give also comes off my time, so I really want to talk about this. The two examples you have given, first of all about people who for generations have never worked and who are on benefit for whatever reason, the people who have never had opportunities, will want to volunteer for this programme. I hope you are right. I definitely know that sport is a tremendous catalyst, particularly in deprived communities, and I hope you are right. I am not...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I have got 50. Can I add them to Dee's 40-odd, because I think that the key thing that I have got so far from this debate is this opportunity to say that we can bring to you information that we are picking up and have every right to pick up; that is what our job is. You have a responsibility to be open and receptive to what we bring to you. That is what Londoners understand your job is. So I think the best thing for me this morning has been that opening, and I would ask you, through...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

will happily acknowledge they are a step forward on current practice but I do not think they are achieving the sorts of goals that others, including the Mayor, are setting out. Can I just ask about the role of the commission? Again the commitment is in here, which is welcome in terms of the scrutiny through the Commission for Sustainable London 2012. Will that commission have the ability to question and push you back on these targets, or is this a given now?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I want very much to follow those points. This is obviously hugely welcome, but in relation particularly to the water commitment of 20% on the residential buildings- so a 20% improvement on current practice - my information is that that equates to about 130 litre per day target, whereas the Mayor's own guidance on sustainable design and construction expresses a preferred target of 70 litres. So I really want to push you back and say that the targets in here are not stretch targets. And what are you going to do to move that forward?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I absolutely pay tribute to the work that has been done, but I want to push this as far as we can go, and I want to be clear whether the commission that has been set up specifically to review this, is able to say, that figure is not far enough, we think you can go further. Or are you effectively tying their hands behind their back before they even start to say you can only comment on what is in here?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Since we have both sides and perhaps Lord Coe, you could answer. Can you give us a commitment in public that the funding will be adequate to allow the commission to do its full job properly from your resources, or your part of the funding?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

They have the scope to do that? Excellent. I am glad that is clear. Clear to me anyway. It may have been clear to others beforehand. In terms of their funding then, they clearly need the resources to do that job. Can I be clear where that funding is coming from? Because I was not sure why, Neale [Coleman], you were answering that question when surely it needs to come from the ODA, but also I presume LOCOG because this is a sort of broader strategy.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I would like to ask Neale [Coleman] to tell me a bit more about the Paralympics legacy. I was very pleased to hear you say that there is now a target for accreditation of sports clubs that offer facilities to people with disabilities. However, I am still concerned that every single sports club that we spoke to in London that offers help to people with disabilities, were saying that they have been starved off cash. Specifically, Members of this Assembly went to see the Camberwell Sports Club, which looks after children with very, very severe disabilities, and they have had...