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• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

The second question is to Manny Lewis. As you know, the Eastway cyclists vacated their site at Eastway after 32 years on the promise that they were going to be given replacement facilities. Now I know you sent out a press release about the cute little newts the other day, but the fact is that you knew about the newts in November 2006 because you were told about them by London Borough of Redbridge, and it seems to me that you have just been dragging your feet. My main concern is that the replacement facilities that you put in place...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I have a couple of questions and I will start with Manny [Lewis]. You spoke about having achieved over 800 training courses to date in construction. Are you monitoring in terms of diversity ethnicity and location? If you are, can you share that information so that we can be assured that the contract that you have made with the local community and with Londoners that they will be accessing these jobs, especially in the construction industry, is being fulfilled? Second, can you tell me any more about the construction site which I have been championing to get established within Leyton...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Just thinking beyond the Olympics and who actually manages the Olympic Park, I think that is very critical for the legacy for a number of reasons. It will have state of the art sporting facilities, a park, waterways and I do hope it will still be democratically responsive to Londoners. I wondered if you have got any views from all three organisations, given that our colleagues from the local authorities have already expressed their views to some extent when I last raised this issue when they were here?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Yes, just very briefly, my question is to Manny [Lewis] and it is a follow-up on the delivering of skills and employment legacy. Will the Boost programme, which is concentrated in the five Olympic boroughs, be rolled out across London, or is that a solely East End project?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

My concern is the real deprived communities; the ones that are just not being picked up because nobody knows who they are. The more visits I do the more convinced I become that what is on offer is not really going to help these people and those are the people that we all want to help more than anyone. I wondered if you would consider a couple of things. First of all I really identified a need for some pan-London funding where at the moment you are giving it to boroughs to dish out, which I understand, but there is...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Are you saying that the increase of 1.3 million more visitors to London last year is a direct result of this investment?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

According to figures £14.6 million is being paid to Visit London and another £6.7 million for London Unlimited. What evidence have you got that there is a direct relationship between their activities and the increase in tourism in London?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Just one final question; do you have any sort of ball-park figure as to the number of trips that have been made by the Mayor's Office and paid for by Visit London?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Right, and those figures will go back till when?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Final thought; we used to have the London Tourist Office, which we could say was a body that was there simply to actually enhance tourism to this country. You seem now to have created it into something which is completely unmeasurable because you are saying that we do not any longer measure our tourism as such. Visit London is actually wrapped up in far bigger things to do with business, to do with environmental policies. Wouldn't it be simpler if we could actually say, 'Well, this is about promoting tourism and this is why we spent X amount of money...