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• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

Picking up on Kate (Green)'s point about more joined-up thinking on targets and so on, in linking with other strategies, in 2003 the GLA Consultation Tackling Poverty in London had a number of recommendations including the commitment to assess GLA policies and strategies for their contribution to poverty reduction and to produce an annual Poverty Monitoring Report on the success of GLA interventions. Can I ask John why these recommendations were not carried out?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

So, the Mayor has new powers now on skills, and we've just heard that he is going to be playing a leading role in that. Can I ask the rest of the panel how you see that making a difference in terms of tackling poverty?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 July 2006

There's nothing wrong with leading questions, I think Kate (Green) very helpfully put it on the agenda; I am just exploring this line of inquiry.

• Reference: 2001/0079-1
• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What role will he play in the drawing up and implementation of the Energy Strategy? .

• Reference: 2001/0077-1
• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What role will he play in the drawing up of the Spatial Development Strategy? .

• Reference: 2001/0078-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What possibilities is he considering for pedestrianisation schemes? . (Victor Anderson) In the advice that you give, will you be giving advice about pedestrianisation schemes, because you have spoken in favour of them in the past and they are also referred to in general terms in the document. But there is only one specific scheme that is proposed in the document which is the one at Trafalgar Square. Will you be pressing for others? .

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

What advice will you give to the Mayor about the two different views in the proposals document about development of London? One of the views in the document is the emphasis on orbital public transport routes creating a city of interchanges. The other view is that there are four development corridors which link the City of London and central London to existing airports or a possible future airport in North Thames. With these two contrasting views in the same document, what view will you take?

• Question by: Victor Anderson
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do you think that the SDS will be able to deliver a better quality design that you have talked about? Because I think that there is a danger that we will have a rhetoric about better quality design but not actually mechanisms for achieving it.