Search questions

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I have a question pertaining to my area in particular and that is about the canoe venue which is going to be very near Enfield and Waltham Forest in the Lee Valley Regional Park. There have been reports this week that because the original site was contaminated, a new site may be having to be looked at. My question with legacy is this; I know with the original proposals Lee Valley Regional Park were putting in extra money, so there would be a real legacy for the area in terms of children being able to participate and a learning loop...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

With regard to those extra regeneration costs, can I ask will we be getting shortly some indication of the benefits that they will bring as well?

• 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?

• 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?

• 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...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

My question is about jobs and the benefits of jobs, especially in London. I understand that London has actually been divided into three categories: there is the Olympic boroughs themselves, then the Thames Gateway, and after that there is the rest of London. I understand that they are going to be treated in terms of jobs and employment in that order. I am representing Tottenham, which has double the level of unemployment London average and is next door to the Olympic boroughs. This is a 15 minute train ride and a similar bus ride away. The people of Tottenham, I...