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• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Can I just ask what you and Visit London are doing about increasing the number of hotel rooms in London? Particularly as we move forward to 2012, it is going to be a very important issue. A very important issue would be the standard of these rooms and also the cost. Will you be investigating hotel companies that actually put their room costs up to an exorbitant rate as they move towards 2012?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

It is not the fault of the education system. The educators will know that if young people have manual skills and are not academic, they can, at the end of their education, push them in the that direction, but there is nowhere to push them to because there are not enough training places. We do not have trade colleges now, we do not have apprenticeship schemes. It is really quite serious and it is about time certain people woke up to this. The Learning and Skills Council have done a very, very poor job in this area and we cannot...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

You were talking about recent changes, one of which was Victor (Anderson) going to check out, and set the criteria for and examine sustainability issues. I had a presentation from a group of residents' associations in Haringey about the Haringey Heartlands development, and they certainly do not feel it is sustainable or that it has any of the skills, jobs, transport infrastructure, things that it should have, and that they were never asked for their opinion in the statutory consultation and for the results. Is it Victor who can save them from this fate worse than death, or is it...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Where would you find that out? It was the local authority reporting back on the consultation. Can people come directly to Tony Winterbottom if they are unhappy?