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• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

I have not got time to get into an argument with you so I would just like to ask you a question if that is all right. I know that sales of social housing have fallen this year and there was actually an increase in the number of social housing, but it is always like a leaky pot, isn't it: as fast as you build the social housing there is the right to buy process, and so you are losing those houses? Doesn't the Mayor have any powers to remove the right to buy on new social building?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

On this issue of economic boost, clearly it would give London and economic boost if we committed to a living wage for all the workers. Is this going to be -- I know the ODA is working with London citizens to ease this forward. Is this going to be living wage Olympics? Are we going to be globally embarrassed?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Can I come on to LOCOG? Let us talk about a deadline that LOCOG actually had, which was for a sustainability management system that was promised immediately following the election of the host city. As far as I know that still has not happened.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

David, I am actually one of the stakeholders and also of course the Royal Institute for British Architects (RIBA) are also stakeholders and neither of us is happy. In fact, for example, RIBA actually said `the ODA sustainability policy is a disappointing missed opportunity'. From our point of view, we do not how you can call some of these measures exemplary, you know, when they will already be backed by Building Regulations by 2010. It has got to be bigger than something we are getting two years before the Olympics. You know, whether it is water usage, or the energy...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Forgive me, I do not doubt your intention to make this the greenest Olympics ever. I do not doubt that, but I do doubt your ability to do it without really good advice. One of the big issues that really offends me is there is going to be a commission for sustainable London 2012, and there seems to be delays in getting this going and the fact is you need that scrutiny body. It is very, very important for you to have that, because there is expert advice there, on hand, with an overview of the sort of thing that...

• Reference: 2007/0015-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Can you update us on progress towards the Games' environmental commitments?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

One of the methods that you could accommodate this flood risk is through the Green Grid. Now, I am not seeing any movement on this. I am not seeing the finance in place. I am not seeing, in any serious way, that you are actually going to put that in place.

• Reference: 2005/0273-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Non-LOCOG capital investment is estimated at $15.8 bn. Can you provide details of how this figure will be met?

• Reference: 2005/0274-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Can you provide a breakdown of which elements of the development will be funded by the public sector, which will be funded through public/private partnerships and which will be funded solely by the private sector?

• Reference: 2002/0281-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Will the Mayor's Transport Strategy lead to making London a healthier place to live? .