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• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Just to clear up the point about when the report was released I think it went to the Board at 9 am or so and the press release came out 3 pm or 4 pm. I could not get the report itself off the LDA website until close to 7 pm on a Friday evening.

• 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: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

I have a question on this very topic later, question 136, if your notes help you; still on the same subject of tackling barriers to employment and unemployment. It simply does not ring true to me what you have been saying as to why there is such disparity between London and the rest of the country. If you talk to your colleagues in Liverpool or Newcastle or even single-industry towns like Bradford or Oldham, they will be green with envy with the opportunities we have in London. So, can you return to this question of this gap between employment rates...

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

An awful lot of that is migration and that is people coming because they perceive that the jobs are here. So, intuitively that should not be working. If the jobs are not here, that should not be driving migration. They should actually be going out of London to where the jobs are. There is stronger jobs growth outside London.

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

I agree we have those problems. I am not sure they are so extremely different from other parts of the country. But against that, we have massive opportunities in London that single-industry towns, where the industries closed in the north of the country, do not have. In terms of the LDA, whatever the causes of it, the facts are there, that it is getting worse in London compared to the rest of the country. In terms of what the LDA is doing about it, your snapshot is very stark. The ones with red blobs are in this area and all...

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

That is them rather than you, because when the Mayor is taxed on this issue he says `Oh well, when I get more powers over skills all will be well'. But actually the LDA has been up and running, and you are in your sixth year now. What I am trying to understand is what more ought you to be doing or what more ought you to have done, given that you are, at heart, an economic development agency and the primary indicator of economic growth is the number of jobs created.

• Reference: 2005/0070-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Eurostar - links with other transport modes The design of the new Stratford International station for Eurostar is such that it will involve passengers in a 500 metre walk to reach the Stratford public transport interchange for Tube, DLR and bus. What plans does TfL have to overcome this ludicrous situation - can some kind of transit shuttle be built?

• Reference: 2005/0075-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Why is the Oyster Pre-pay peak-hours discount only available on buses with conductors? How many routes are therefore excluded from the discount and what is this as a percentage of all bus routes?

• Reference: 2005/0079-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Can you comment on the latest fire on one of the Mercedes articulated buses - were we not assured in the spring of 2004 that the problem that caused three fires on these vehicles previously had been overcome?

• Reference: 2004/0216-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

What or who actually drives the LDA's agenda? .