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• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Sorry, Ms. Reilly, with all due respect, I do not think that Ms. Doocey's question asked any of that, and I do not think you have answered it, because I do not think you have actually referred to the issue that she raises in her last sentence. I would be most obliged if you would refer to that issue.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

I understand how the event works. In fact, in a previous life I was responsible for part of the London Fashion Week, so I know how it works and how important it is. But I have a real concern that the Mayor has a duty to promote health and well-being and to have regard to health in all of his strategies. It does not seem to fit that one of the GLA group is funding an event that is definitely encouraging skinny models, people who are just not the right role models. You are probably aware that in addition to...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Can I just make one final suggestion which is, the danger is that you look at the individual schemes and say, `On that scheme we remediated pollution, on that scheme we had renewable energy' and there is no standing back to say, `Well overall, when we look at our total outputs as an agency, we can see whether we are making progress towards sustainable development'. So, some sort of annual snapshot stocktake would help and would help external stakeholders as well.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

In a sense that is the ideal in the ideal world. One would invest in an environmental technology business that creates the jobs, that gets a long-term unemployed person into work and so forth, so you get the virtuous circle of win win win. But in the real world there are choices and what I want to flush out is really how the Agency and the Board, perhaps from the top, reconciles some of the tensions. Let me take an example of affordable housing. I think from the statistics I have last year, there were something like 1,500 new affordable...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

I agree that is the ideal. I just think in the real world that is not always possible, certainly in the time frames that one is dealing with. Can you tell me what the role of the Health and Sustainability Advisory Group is, which I think is a new innovation and how does that fit into your governance structure?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Thank you. Can you just remind me of your statutory responsibilities in relation to sustainable development? There is a provision in the Act.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

No, no because they are advisory, but do they make a regular report to the Board? Does the Board receive a report from the group?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Is there any annual stocktake snapshot of progress towards the sustainability generally, reconciling the economic, social and environmental? Does the Board or the Agency take stock once a year and look at those trade-offs or look at the win win.

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

That is 9,000, of which we have got 23 per cent secured.

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

I am just looking at the aspects that we have already talked about, barriers to employment and worklessness and here are 2,000 jobs that are real, actually in place, that are under threat.