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  • London Recovery Board and London Transition Board (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: Joanne McCartney
    • Meeting date: 02 July 2020
    Joanne McCartney AM: My question is to Niran. Looking forward at economic recovery, do you think there is a balance between jobs, in terms of the amount of jobs and job security we can offer, and making sure that companies offer good terms and conditions? Is that something that the Recovery Board has at the forefront of its mind?
  • Barriers to Employment (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Joanne McCartney
    • Meeting date: 11 October 2006
    I am glad to hear that because, of course, Tottenham and Edmonton have got some of the highest worklessness rates in London. I want to just briefly move on to the London Skills and Employment Board. Do you have a timetable yet as to when this strategy may be developed?
  • Barriers to Employment (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Joanne McCartney
    • Meeting date: 11 October 2006
    I would like to ask firstly about Assisted Area status. You know my concerns with that, especially with developing part of the Lea Valley. I know the Chair sent a helpful letter in the summer and this Assembly also lobbied on this. Do we have any news, first of all, as to where those negotiations are going?
  • Barriers to Employment (Supplementary) [15]

    • Question by: Joanne McCartney
    • Meeting date: 11 October 2006
    I think in tackling worklessness, it is obviously important that you have children coming out of school and training and retraining for adults to meet the needs of the workplace, but I am wondering presumably you will be consulting with business, about what business needs and a strategy but will you also be consulting with young people as well? I know from some of the work we have done on the Economic Development Committee that the views of young people often is that perhaps academia is not the best place for many of them and that they should be given...