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• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

We have worked with you extensively on our flooding report, and Darren Johnson actually signed up to that, so I was quite surprised at the Green Group's questioning. But the issues that we did identify that were of concern to the Committee were the commitment to the Green Grid, in terms of work you have done with the ODPM and we do recognise that the ODPM have actually recently announced more funding for the Green Grid. But I wanted to get a sense of how important they thought it was, and also to do with the Kate Barker report that...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

On the ODPM, how convinced are they of the case?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

A small point, returning to this question of the utilities infrastructure and whether you are in this rich mix of cooks and broths and magic wands talking to the regulators, Ofcom, Ofgem and all the other `ofs', because in the old days the utilities, the phone, gas and electricity companies would have been able to put the infrastructure in ahead of demand. Now they are working on a private model they can only put the investment in if there is a sure payback, unless the regulators tell them they have to do that. So are the regulators part of this?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

To save time here, I would be grateful if we could be sent that costing assessment, and if you also have any assessment of the costing, as you rightly say, of the social and health infrastructure, that would be helpful

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

That would be helpful for the Assembly to have. The final question I wanted to ask was this: given that much of the infrastructure and demands do not stop at the Greater London boundary, what joint work has been done with, for example, Essex and Kent County Councils and the surrounding regions to see (a) what can be done to make sure that the infrastructure provision is properly aligned and (b) what economies of scale and what joint lobbying work can be done to advance the Gateway issue?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

It would be very helpful to have the costings as far as they go on infrastructure issues. How advanced are we in terms of who is going to pay for all of this?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Chair, I will not raise it again, because we have dealt with it. Thank you for the comprehensive response, which covered most of the issues that I wanted to raise. On the subject of waste disposal, obviously that is going to have implications for the waste authorities and for the local authorities there. What is being done to work with them and to deal with that issue?