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• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Unmesh Desai AM: Good morning, Lyn. Good morning, Lord Hendy. If I could ask you, Lyn, how can the return of the planning powers to local boroughs be used as an opportunity to change the way that local residents can be engaged in planning earlier in the process?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 06 October 2022

Unmesh Desai AM: Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon, panel. My question is about the demands of policing mega events and it is to you, Lyn. The policing operation for the Olympics was huge and a success. However, one of the problems with policing mega events, as a Government report made clear in 2020, is the coordination between multiple agencies. With the current and anticipated increasing footfall in the Stratford area with the ABBA [Voyage] Arena and the proposed MSG Sphere, how are you working with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the British Transport Police (BTP) and other agencies to meet...

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 02 July 2020

Unmesh Desai AM: Chair, my questions are to Mr David Bellamy. Mr Bellamy, in your opening statement you said that inequalities have been laid bare by this crisis. You also said we cannot go back to how things were and that this is no time for cuts. You talked about the wider financial climate and some tough decisions that have to be made. In moving forward, we heard about the work of the London Recovery Board and the London Transition Board, but ordinary Londoners out there can be forgiven for thinking there are just yet more quangos and more bureaucratic...