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  • Question and Answer Session: London Development Agency Settlement (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 16 March 2011
    Yes, Chair. I am impressed the Mayor has created another functional body: Bacon for London! I have three areas of questioning - very briefly. The first is you are trying to clutch some sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat, I would suggest. The Government effectively abolished both the budgets and the entities of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) last year, while accepting that City Hall is going to have some economic regeneration capacity. I pay tribute to you personally because I know you have been scrambling in the background to try to persuade it that it made...

  • Question and Answer Session: London Development Agency Settlement (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 16 March 2011
    Yes, Chair. I am impressed the Mayor has created another functional body: Bacon for London! I have three areas of questioning - very briefly. The first is you are trying to clutch some sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat, I would suggest. The Government effectively abolished both the budgets and the entities of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) last year, while accepting that City Hall is going to have some economic regeneration capacity. I pay tribute to you personally because I know you have been scrambling in the background to try to persuade it that it made...

  • Question and Answer Session: Mayoral Development Corporation (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 16 March 2011
    Thank you, Chair. Cruel fate has dictated that I lead on this as well! I am very grateful for your opening comments. Can you tell us what progress you have made in your discussions with the boroughs in particular on how they might be affected, particularly on the planning powers?

  • Infrastrucutre and Regeneration (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    OK. If we take the example of the Olympic Boulevard, that is the main Olympic marathon route back into the Olympic Park after they have done their 26 miles. The aspiration would be that that looks good on television, for example. That is not your responsibility?

  • Infrastrucutre and Regeneration (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    OK. There is an interesting challenge here which is that virtually the whole of the rest of the world is very keen to make sure that the Olympics do not go over budget, whereas a lot of my constituents in East London are very anxious to make sure that, in making sure the Olympics do not go over budget, we do not spend too little on the regeneration benefits for the area. The individual borough councils, for example, have aspirations as to how the Olympics will improve their areas. One that pops up is the Olympic Boulevard idea, supported by...

  • Infrastrucutre and Regeneration (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    Can I move on to the question of jobs and employment. There has been a lot of focus on the budgets ensuring that people are adequately trained to build the facilities. Do you have a responsibility for thinking about legacy land uses and the ways in which communities will benefit from those uses of land? The one that is held up very often is the Broadcast Centre which could become a major employment venue in the future. What is your role in that, or are you simply trying to get the cheapest building up quickly, do not care if it...

  • Infrastrucutre and Regeneration (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    I suppose I should declare, for the record, that I am the Deputy Chair of the UDC, although I would not accept that it is the only body responsible for this work.

  • Infrastrucutre and Regeneration (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    Right, OK. If we want to make sure that the boundaries, although you could physically walk across them after the Games, are softened to a point where a resident of Bow or of Hackney Wick can walk into the Olympic Park after the Games as if it was next door to them, and talk about responsibility for funding that and making sure it happens, is that again not your responsibility?

  • Legacy (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    I have had some involvement in this issue, and life is never quite as straightforward as it might seem. I think we should note that the cyclists, quite rightly, in a consultation, rejected an option for relocation to Enfield which, although it was very strongly opposed by them for a range of good reasons, did have a fundamentally different configuration from the arrangements we now have in front of us. I think it is also interesting that in a press release that came out today the British Cycling Chief Executive says, `The Olympic Velopark will be a huge boost to...

  • Legacy (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    Right. Another example would be the white water canoeing facility where, again, to have a national venue which can be used for international competitions every now and again is a very real and obvious aspiration for the national body, but to have a facility that at the same time can train people up to become tomorrow's Olympic athletes is sometimes going to be in conflict with that. I do not want specific answers about specific venues, but how are you going to make sure and be able to demonstrate to us that you have balanced those in a way that...