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• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Well it has failed. It has failed, hasn't it?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Does that mean that the figures that you previously published, for all the previous years, were made up?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Why then has the Mayor opposed, for example, what Wandsworth has been doing to bring back empty homes into the housing market?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Why do not you simply address yourself to last year's figure, which was the only year where the Mayor reached his target.

• Reference: 2007/0076-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

How confident are you that the Mayor's Housing Strategy can sufficiently increase housing supply to meet London's growing demand?

• Reference: 2007/0077-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

What are you doing to ensure that an appropriate range of different kinds of housing will be available to Londoners in each of the boroughs?

• Reference: 2007/0079-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

What proportion of social housing is currently allocated to migrants and asylum seekers granted leave to stay?

• 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...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I am very grateful for Mr Biggs mentioning Croydon and Sutton, and I will just briefly touch on that in the limited time that I have. Recently the Department for Work and Pensions came up with figures for Croydon Central Parliamentary Constituency. It is 14th in terms of number of lone parents who are on income support, so there is a very real need to recognise the importance of investing in this area in terms of social deprivation. But my question is actually about the question which Mr Biggs has down about the economic development impact. I would declare an...