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• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 05 July 2018

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Since we last met, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said that 28% of London’s construction workers are from the European Union (EU). In light of this and given that the Deputy Mayor for Housing [and Residential Development] has said an additional 13,000 construction workers are needed in the capital, perhaps, Liz, as Chairman, you could advise me, do you think there are going to be problems in getting your project built?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

The thesis behind this question is that the Assembly has a statutory responsibility to hold the LDA to account, but you are not a creature of regional government; there are these multiple accountabilities. If we are to do our job in holding you to account effectively, we need to see how these conflicts are working, and we talked offline about the difficulty of, for example, making available publicly a Government Office for London quarterly assessment of you. I think we need to explore further how to see that relationship working better with government. Moving on to the second question relating...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

In relation to the mayoral interventions, either directly or through advisors, at the Economic and Social Development Committee you said that there had never been a time when you had actually refused a request. There had been vigorous discussions, but the answer had never been `no'.