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• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Chair): Yes, thank you. Can I start my question to Sir Peter? It is going back to a Plenary Assembly meeting that we had on 2 November 2017. The issue was raised there about the timeline which you are working to in order to return the planning powers that you either see as being on loan or borrowed from the Olympic boroughs of Hackney, Waltham Forest, Newham and Tower Hamlets. I have met with local councillors representing wards in all of these boroughs and spoken to some senior representatives and a group of residents, and they...

• Reference: 2019/17040
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Your Ten Year Plan and Five Year Strategy both contain policies to improve inclusion for Londoners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). How is this work progressing, including but not limited to your physical accessibility programme?

• Reference: 2019/17041
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

You have set targets for a diverse LLDC workforce, including BAME people, women and people with disabilities. How did you determine these targets and what progress has been made towards achieving them?

• Reference: 2019/17042
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

How are you ensuring that your work with local schools benefits the most vulnerable children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)?

• Reference: 2019/20670
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Jennette Arnold OBE AM (Chair): We will now go to section 4 of the agenda, and that is the question and answer session on the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC). We have with us today Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC, and Ms Lyn Garner, Chief Executive of the LLDC. Our questions to you both will be on the work and policies of the LLDC. Welcome to the meeting. To give a brief explanation, there are three lead-off questions and Assembly Members may ask supplementary questions after each question has been answered. Before asking the first question, however...

• Reference: 2011/0083-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

What are your priorities in relation to the London 2012 City Operations Programme, and what do you think the key challenges and risks will be?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Neale, it was clarity we were looking for. Alan Benson, Head of Housing, met with Members - certainly of my Group - and we welcome that and we feel that we fed in and we can see, in the Strategy, issues of concern to us that have been addressed, but what we wanted to get was what difference this is going to make so that the current situation is not going to really improve; the Mayor does not have a power to actually deal with this issue.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

What actions are you taking in terms of this serious concern that the councils have raised?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

I do not know that that answers the question because, from what you have said, it does not appear that he does have any powers to use directly in relation to this issue about boroughs who do not take up their grant, because you were saying that you would then wait to use the planning powers.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

The last question: it is about Capital Moves. Is it right that all boroughs have signed up to Capital Moves?