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• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

): I am sure Members will have detailed questions on that wider experience and the work you are doing to keep the capital moving and so forth. All that good work though will be lost if the message does not get out that the wider Games experience has been a success. So I just wanted to start by concentrating on the narrow but important point of the non-accredited media and your arrangements around that, and I am sure the Members will widen it from there. As I understand it, there is about 20,000 or so expected on the accredited side...

• Reference: 2007/0044-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Who is going to benefit from the 'London Youth Offer' announced on 20th September 2008?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Actually I want to come in on exactly this point but before I do, can I say, since there has been some hostile questioning, if I can put it that way, from other parts of the Chamber, that in relation to the additional powers to the Mayor we, from our side, have supported this. We are very pleased to see renewed or additional vigour on this subject. It is the number one issue of concern to Londoners in the polls, certainly the ones I have seen. On this question of the Capital Moves, can you just be clear. You have...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

OK. So the two things they are asking for are, firstly that there should be specific reference, so that point we are clear on. The second thing they are saying is that the Mayor should remove the target for 25% re-lets by 2012 from his draft Housing Strategy. As I understand it, their concern is that if they do not, as it were, get enough for their people they will not have the incentive to bring forward schemes and so forth. I have to say I am in two minds about that because I am politically old enough to remember...

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

You anticipated my next question which was, if we count the Olympics towards that target, so the real issue, as it were, is for non-Olympic area target for the rest of London that we need to highlight and make sure that that is sufficiently ambitious to give us the brownfield site to protect the greenfield and then green belt.

• 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?