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• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

I have not got time to get into an argument with you so I would just like to ask you a question if that is all right. I know that sales of social housing have fallen this year and there was actually an increase in the number of social housing, but it is always like a leaky pot, isn't it: as fast as you build the social housing there is the right to buy process, and so you are losing those houses? Doesn't the Mayor have any powers to remove the right to buy on new social building?

• Reference: 2007/0015-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Can you update us on progress towards the Games' environmental commitments?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

One of the methods that you could accommodate this flood risk is through the Green Grid. Now, I am not seeing any movement on this. I am not seeing the finance in place. I am not seeing, in any serious way, that you are actually going to put that in place.

• Reference: 2005/0273-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Non-LOCOG capital investment is estimated at $15.8 bn. Can you provide details of how this figure will be met?

• Reference: 2005/0274-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Can you provide a breakdown of which elements of the development will be funded by the public sector, which will be funded through public/private partnerships and which will be funded solely by the private sector?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

You actually said, `There will be no permanent or temporary facility built in Hackney Marshes.'

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Jenny Jones (AM): Well, that is not what local people think.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

`Temporary' is two years. You are moving that football club on, that's Sunday league, for two years.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Let us look at the cost, then. It is expensive to start taking green space and then reconstitute it. Why not just leave it and find another option?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

It has actually proven quite difficult for me to sit here and listen, and not stand up and shout, `rubbish,- because you are talking about environmental sustainability, you are talking about legacy in east London, and yet you are planning to tarmac over a piece of Hackney Marshes: East Marsh... You are ignoring the wishes of the local people, who have come up with several other options instead of tarmacking over a piece of green space. Why are you not consulting the local people? I can give you three suggestions. I have a map and can point to these places...