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  • Climate change (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Richard Tracey
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2010
    The question has regularly been asked by those of us certainly from this side in the past about handing regeneration back to the boroughs. Where does this current situation leave us on that question, if I can follow the line that Tony was taking about on localism?

  • Devolution to the GLA and Boroughs (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Richard Tracey
    • Meeting date: 21 July 2010
    Minister, you have talked about devolution to the boroughs as a whole. Recently I read the suggestion by a former Parliamentary colleague, Rob Hayward [former Member of Parliament for Kingswood], that perhaps there are too many London boroughs; currently there are 32, and some of them are rather small. He said that he had been an advisor to the Secretary of State when he was in the Shadow Cabinet. Are you aware that your Department might be looking at reducing the number of London boroughs?

  • Planning (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Richard Tracey
    • Meeting date: 21 July 2010
    One historically controversial area has been the sale of school playing fields by local authorities for development. What sort of controls are you going to keep over that because the public do have some very strong feelings about it?

  • Work of the LDA (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Richard Tracey
    • Meeting date: 13 January 2010
    Could I pursue some of what my colleague, Andrew Boff, has been asking you about? To be honest, we are receiving many comments from the boroughs, from borough leaders and from borough officers, that they are really not content at all with the sort of support for businesses which you are giving, so you are not really pleasing anybody it seems. You are not pleasing the boroughs and you are not pleasing us, certainly when we receive criticism from the boroughs, and you are not actually helping the businesses it would seem. I cannot understand why there should be the...

  • LDA Debt (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Richard Tracey
    • Meeting date: 18 March 2009
    Mr McGrath, you sound to me really rather uncomfortable in this position over the Olympics. Is that a fair description? Are you feeling uncomfortable and really rather insecure about it all?