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• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 12 January 2021

Shaun Bailey AM: Thank you, Chair. Good morning, all. Can I address my first question to Deputy Mayor Agrawal, please? When restrictions are easing and are being pulled back, what work is being done to prepare London to reopen, by the Mayor’s Office and by your office as well, please?

• Reference: 2019/11381
• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 06 June 2019

How would you rate the effectiveness of the LEAP?

• Reference: 2019/11382
• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 06 June 2019

Since the LEAP was created, what actions have you taken to support economic growth and job creation in the capital?

• Reference: 2019/11380
• Question by: Caroline Russell
• Meeting date: 06 June 2019

Could you explain why there are significant underspends in your support for community and environmental projects?

• Reference: 2014/2582
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 16 July 2014

The provision of cultural opportunities in London’s outer boroughs and the improvement of the accessibility to London’s cultural workforce were two priorities in the Mayor’s 2010 Cultural Strategy. What progress have you made since then, and what are the future goals, for both priorities?

• Reference: 2014/2583
• Question by: Fiona Twycross
• Meeting date: 16 July 2014

Why did you choose to update rather than replace or revise Cultural Metropolis? Can we expect further policy developments before the Mayoral election in 2016?

• Reference: 2014/2584
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 July 2014

What has been the cultural legacy of the Olympics and what efforts has the GLA made to help build a cultural legacy since the Olympics?

• Reference: 2014/2585
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 July 2014

What are you doing to help safeguard the future of live music venues, of varying sizes, in the capital?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

All right, David. One thing that I am a bit concerned about is that, if you look, for example, at the actual stadium and you look at the original quote of £280 million, the Government has now acknowledged it will be higher than that because of the fact that you want a legacy from it; you do not just want a temporary 80,000 seat stadium. Now, the problem is that that tends to indicate to me that no account initially was taken of a possible legacy use, so therefore there is at least another £100 million in costs. Ignore the...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

If I turn to other areas, you mentioned - Sydney and Athens, and so on. My problem with the situation is, if you look at Athens, and, five years earlier, at a lot of the other venues, and with things like rowing and so on, these things were promised to be legacy. If you look at all the original stuff, it said, `this will be legacy'. But the rowing area now has, sort of, environmentally despoiled a wetlands area. The problem is, I cannot find any situation where I can trust claims. It all seems very pie in the sky...