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  • Question and Answer Session: London Development Agency Settlement (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 16 March 2011
    Can I just understand the numbers a bit better. You talked about the £56 million that was all that was committed up to now but we have got £85.6 million in the budgets for this current year. Is that £85.6 million funded or is there now more in this current year, 2011/12, than that number?
  • Question and Answer Session: London Development Agency Settlement (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 16 March 2011
    Can I just understand the numbers a bit better. You talked about the £56 million that was all that was committed up to now but we have got £85.6 million in the budgets for this current year. Is that £85.6 million funded or is there now more in this current year, 2011/12, than that number?
  • Question and Answer Session: Mayoral Development Corporation (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 16 March 2011
    In the minute or two left I do not have the time to debate the sweep of the abolition of the Greater London Council (GLC) because it was too interventionist, the strategic role this body was meant to have and now a much more interventionist, but I think many of us round here would be very concerned at planning powers being taken off boroughs as a way of doing business. First question then, very quickly, do you agree that, if we are to go down this MDC route, there should be a very tight set of objectives and time limited...
  • London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [32]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    I would like to follow up that point and I do understand we are only looking at the process here today; we are not looking at the substance. The Assembly called for this to be put in the hands of an independent auditor in the [form of the] District Auditor. The Mayor and his advisers in response have been saying, 'Oh no, they are all involved, don't you worry' but the crucial thing you have said to us this morning is, 'The conclusions are mine alone'. That is the crucial point. Therefore, whilst you may well have had involvement and...
  • Staff levels

    • Reference: 2005/0449-1
    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 07 December 2005
    How many new staff have been appointed to the LDA to work on the Olympics, and at what cost?
  • Staff levels (2)

    • Reference: 2005/0450-1
    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 07 December 2005
    How many staff have been appointed to the interim ODA, and are they currently being funded by the LDA?
  • Land Value Tax

    • Reference: 2005/0456-1
    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 07 December 2005
    How realistic is it to talk of a land value tax in the Thames Gateway or other development based funding mechanisms, such as the `roof tax- scheme in Milton Keynes?
  • LDA's agenda

    • Reference: 2005/0461-1
    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 07 December 2005
    How many times in the last six years has the LDA board refused to fund a request from the Mayor or City Hall?
  • Beijing and Shanghai

    • Reference: 2005/0465-1
    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 07 December 2005
    What involvement has the LDA had in the establishment of Offices in Beijing and Shanghai and what is the LDA budget for these offices in 2006/07?
  • LDA accommodation

    • Reference: 2005/0471-1
    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 07 December 2005
    Please provide an update on any decisions taken in relation to accommodation for LDA staff.