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• Reference: 2004/0197-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Do you accept the view that the biggest difficulty facing the Thames Gateway is the social infrastructure (schools, hospitals, housing etc)? How do you plan to address this? .

• Reference: 2004/0198-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

How will the creation of a UDC affect LDA funding streams and priorities in East London? .

• Reference: 2004/0201-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Do you envisage using LDA resources to develop the Thames Gateway Bridge? .

• Reference: 2004/0202-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

How will you ensure that the Olympic bid area will be regenerated if we do not win the bid? What priority is being given to ensure that local businesses and residents, particularly those from excluded groups, benefit from business and employment opportunities from the Games? .

• Reference: 2004/0203-1
• Question by: Diana Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

What steps are the LDA and Thames Gateway UDC taking to liaise with the MPS, MPA and BTP regarding policing needs in the new Thames Gateway area? .

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

I wanted to ask, and I suppose it is directed mostly at Tony (Winterbottom), how the LDA sees its role in supporting an Urban Development Corporation (UDC) for east London, and how does it see its role in that, particularly in the Olympic scenario, or alternatively the non-Olympic scenario?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Just to be clear, you want a single UDC covering the Lower Lea Valley, with the LDA as the agency?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

I share a number of the concerns that Tony's outlined and if we can perhaps particularly focus on the website. We're supposed to be, as the GLA family, into open government and the web approach was something that was an ethos that the Mayor and others agree is a great way of people having access. However, if you go onto the LDA website it seems, as Tony says, that you control what comes out in terms of press releases and I haven't yet managed to find the minutes on the website. Maybe I'm just not very good at browsing. But...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

Michael, rumours are flying around about the large amount of jobs that have been lost to date. Can you not give us an assurance and tell us are we talking thousands of jobs to date or what have you got that you can share with us today?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

Can I say I am very happy to see the audit report? I have to say I never actually received my own copy, even though I asked the question originally. I was given a copy by a member of the press. I'm glad we have a free press that somehow gets access to this information. But I was very delighted when the Chair, George Barlow, indicated early on that he was going to seek an internal audit. But this doesn't seem to square with the letter I received from the Chief Executive when I made the initial enquiry about how...