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Living Wage (Supplementary) [3]
- Question by: Richard Tracey
- Meeting date: 21 October 2009
Could I take up one point with you on the whole relative costs of salaries and so on? Mr Higgins, you, I think, serve with seven other directors on the ODA, receiving pretty substantial salaries. Indeed, I believe you, this last year, did forego half of your bonus until 2012. Would it be reasonable for you and your fellow directors to consider foregoing your complete bonus until you have finished the job, and then receive whatever you are entitled to, through the success you have achieved?
Legacy (Supplementary) [1]
- Question by: Andrew Boff
- Meeting date: 21 October 2009
You set the target for 7% of the workforce being previously unemployed. The data that you collected relied on a voluntary question of the staff being employed and only 25% of your workforce actually replied to that question. Are you absolutely convinced that you have hit that target of 7% and that you are claiming 10%? Are you convinced that those are accurate representations of how many people were previously unemployed?
Olympic Route Network (Supplementary) [1]
- Question by: Richard Tracey
- Meeting date: 21 October 2009
The Mayor, of course, has an aspiration that, wherever possible, the officials should use public transport. Now the media are in Bloomsbury, I believe, near the bullet train, so will they use that? Many of the officials will be close to the Central line. Will they use that?
London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [1]
- Question by: Tony Arbour
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Is this information going to be made available to us, that information which you have just said, 'You can see'?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [18]
- Question by: Tony Arbour
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Is this information going to be made available to us, that information which you have just said, 'You can see'?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [20]
- Question by: Bob Neill
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
First of all a specific point: there are standard phrases which occur in a number of paragraphs of the review, one that the review has identified weaknesses, in effect, in procedures which are now being addressed and, second, the point is made, I think, on three or four occasions about the way in which the Mayoral advisory role is conducted in respect of programme delivery should be clarified. What specific steps are you taking to carry forward those conclusions?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [22]
- Question by: Tony Arbour
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
When you say that you are making all of the files available, will you understand our scepticism when earlier this year the Assembly's Economic Development, Culture, Sport and Tourism Committee asked lots of questions about the Bernie Grant Centre and we were originally told that there were only a few sheets of information available but then, when we asked for the matter to be investigated more closely, 40 cartons of papers were made available? It is very difficult for us on that basis to know what precisely is going to be the full information that you hold.
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [26]
- Question by: Bob Blackman
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
How are you going to conduct this sampling process?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [33]
- Question by: Bob Blackman
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
The concern that I would have here is that we have very serious concerns and allegations being raised by ' whatever you might say ' the Evening Standard, as being the publication in London, yet you did not approach them for any further evidence that they have made in terms of their allegations to do this internal review.
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [38]
- Question by: Bob Blackman
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
Did you invite the Evening Standard or anyone else to provide any other evidence that they had as part of this review?