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• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

The Chief Executive (Manny Lewis) referred to the decision that the management are making, that the Board had in considering these issues. Could you advise me of the expected costs for surveyors and for legal advice for the land acquisition programme?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Is skills training as a responsibility too fractured in London? We share skills training issues with the five different Learning and Skills Councils. Is five LSCs too many for London? Is the compromise of sharing the process of skills training through FRESA and the London Skills Commission, while worthy, in the end probably a false compromise and should the LDA have the prime responsibility for skills training in London?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

We know our place in south London, which is not to get very much money from the LDA. But I reckon under the new leadership of the LDA there is a greater emphasis upon south London and what is being done in Crystal Palace. It was not something that was easy to get across when you go and market the new EDS, because of the limited amount of resources that the LDA has to offer, when you are talking to a south London audience. Our team there was given a fairly rough time. I would like to ask something very...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

I strongly agree with Mr Fletcher's view that it is not appropriate and not our purpose to enquire into his personal life, but I can't understand either why he feels it necessary to be reticent about his political views when he is acting as the Mayor in the absence of the Mayor himself. Perhaps I can ask a question in a positive fashion. We don't want to be involved in some kind of McCarthyite enquiry about what your political connections are. With your links with Socialist Action, do you feel that the Mayor has benefited from having political advice from...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

I will respectfully put it to you that if you're acting as the Mayor, it is a matter of interest to Londoners. If they were going to have Mr Livingstone running again in the future, they might like to know whether the person running the shop when he is away is somebody from the far left or from the political mainstream. People can then make their political judgement, whether they want to vote for somebody like that, can't they?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Why are you so reticent in talking about the quality of the political advice that you're giving?