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• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 13 January 2010

Good morning, gentlemen. We have heard about the fact of how London will survive without the LDA. We have also heard from Mr Duvall regarding the workings or possible wrong workings of the LDA. I want to touch on something that is a bit old and I hope is not going to occur again; that is perceived corruption within certain officers and employers of the LDA. One project comes to mind. I know it has been put to bed and I think it has been put to bed a bit too quickly; the Brixton project and the slap on the...

• 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: 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?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 January 2010

Following on from the point that Andrew [Boff] was raising, you said there is going to be a budget line for your academies. How many staff are you envisaging will be working on this when you are going to be having, you say, about five to ten? What sort of figure are we talking about in your budget?

• Reference: 2009/0111-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

What are the LDA's priorities for the next 3 years?

• Reference: 2009/0112-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

The Mayor has promised LDA funding for 10 academies. Has the Board yet considered whether funding secondary education is compatible with focusing on the LDA's core mission around jobs and business?

• Reference: 2009/0113-1
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

Are the LDA confident that they can meet present and future commitments inlight of the burden of debt it is carrying as a result of major infrastructure projects, including the 2012 Games?

• Reference: 2009/0114-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

What role will the LDA play in delivering the Mayor's commitment to helping Londoners improve the energy efficiency of their own homes?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

Can I go back to the surplus, Mr Rogers. I am a great fan of yours and I know how good you are at cutting out unnecessary expenditure, and I am in a way delighted you have got a surplus, but also I have similar reservations to Ms Shawcross. I am a great believer that if we have raised tax, we should actually spend it and not stash it away in the bank. Are you examining any projects that you have previously turned down to now spend your surplus?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

I want to concentrate on the Economic Recovery Action Plan. What proportion of the LDA initiatives referred to in that action plan consist of new measures? Just roughly and not down to the finest detail. What are actually new measures in that recovery plan in terms of the challenges we face? Who is going to answer?