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• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

I have two issues in mind. The first is with street signage on public transport. As a tourist at Athens and at Beijing, I found that very useful in my experience of those cities. I am just wondering whether any thought has been put into that in the London context over and above what the ambassadors will be doing on the street level.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 13 January 2010

Harvey, can I bring you back to the beginning when you mentioned the LDA objectives and one of them being international promotion? It is interesting, over Christmas reading things like The Economist, it was suggesting that the developing countries have come out of the recession much better than anyone had expected and that this has profound consequences on the rest of the world, including London. Hearing that, I understand that we do not now have an office in Delhi or Bombay, one of the leading BRIC countries and one of the countries that we can expect to trade with in...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

Thank you, Chair. Just following on from Val [Shawcross] on the training programmes, the LDA have withdrawn the funding from King's Cross Construction Training Centre, and Camden Council has been forced to step in. Are you aware that the funding that Camden has been able to provide is less than that which was originally provided by the LDA? Secondly, how is possible to justify such cuts in skills training in an area of such acute economic deprivation, and given that King's Cross is a strategic site, why should it be just the people of Camden who fund the training centre...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Just coming back to the issue of the figures for housing, I think it would have been useful to have had someone from the Housing Corporation explain those figures because I have had difficulties getting some idea of what their methodology is on that front and it will undoubtedly become an annual political football. Coming to what I wanted to raise with Neale: the unimplemented planning permissions. Where do you think the explanation lies for that? Is it the five year limit on planning permissions? Is there not the building capacity to build them out? It would be useful, given...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Neale, you missed out housing cooperatives. They are based on mutuality. They are an obvious model for intermediate housing, particular for young people.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Just one more point: the Tenant Management Organisation (TMOs). The Mayor will have responsibility for the Decent Homes programmes now, I understand. Presumably he will be keener on TMOs than going through local authorities, because of their involvement in the management. As Val said, the issue of quality of service is as important as the quantity of housing available.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Just going back to this question of different kinds of housing, what place will housing co-operatives, tenant management organisations and Black and Minority Ethnic Registered Social Landlords have in the Mayor's overall strategy?