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• Reference: 2010/0181-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

What preparations have the LDA made for the transition into the GLA?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

I would like to return, please, to the question which was raised by John Biggs about the possible burden on London council taxpayers of the change of control. It is clear that there are going to be some continuing obligations which the LDA has entered into which are going to have to continue to be paid for. I want to know how you decide how the payments are going to be made? If those payments are going to be made, where is the money coming from? As I understand it, the vast bulk of the money which Government is going...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 13 January 2010

You will know that Members on this side are very sceptical of the role that the LDA is proposing to play in the establishment of academies. Do you not think it would be infinitely more sensible and more attuned to your statutory role if such monies as you have available for education were channelled into providing apprenticeships, training for real jobs, rather than what some of us see as a kind of Trojan horse for re-establishing the Inner London Education Authority?

• Reference: 2008/0196
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

According to his latest Decision List, the Mayor spent £245,000 on the recent 'Light Bulb Amnesty' (£118,000 by the GLA and £127,000 by TfL). How much money was spent on marketing and publicity, and how much was spent on the light bulbs themselves?

• Reference: 2008/0198
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

How many traditional light bulbs were exchanged in the 'Light Bulb Amnesty', and how were these disposed of?

• Reference: 2007/0261-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Large parts of my constituency have no tube access and thus my constituents who commute are almost completely reliant on train travel. Does the Commissioner believe that South-West London is getting a fair deal on public transport and is Transport for London doing enough to help my constituents?

• Reference: 2006/1772
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

In your Draft Alterations to the London Plan, the sub regions are heavily reliant upon new and upgraded transport links, can you please state how you expect the sub-regions to cope with the annual increase in housing/population when transport links such as Crossrail 1, the East London Line extension and upgrades to the underground will not be completed for a few years to come?

• Reference: 2006/0115-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Can you clarify the precise remits of the ODA and LDA?

• Reference: 2004/1601
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Following on from question number 1393/2004, should not the priority be to ensure adequate schooling is provided locally before embarking on social engineering?

• Reference: 2003/0867
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Will you explain why Transport for London finds it difficult to reply to correspondence from Assembly Members eg A) Letter from Tony Arbour sent 5/11/01 on footbridge at Kew, despite more than 50 reminders? B) Letter from Roger Evans of 15/10/02 re Mr Granger ref 198/PS? C) Letter from Andrew Pelling of 13/12/03 ref AP 3065, about improvements to the junction at Selsdon town centre? .