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• 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: 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?

• Reference: 2006/0137-1
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

What does the concept of sustainable development mean in practice to an agency whose remit is essentially economic? Please give one example of the difference made by the LDA's stated commitment to sustainable development.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

A small point, returning to this question of the utilities infrastructure and whether you are in this rich mix of cooks and broths and magic wands talking to the regulators, Ofcom, Ofgem and all the other `ofs', because in the old days the utilities, the phone, gas and electricity companies would have been able to put the infrastructure in ahead of demand. Now they are working on a private model they can only put the investment in if there is a sure payback, unless the regulators tell them they have to do that. So are the regulators part of this?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

I saw that the LDA was putting a grant into some electricity substation, I cannot remember the details, and I thought `why is the LDA paying for electricity infrastructure?'