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  • Balance of Taxation (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2012
    Goodness me. I think this is a very worthwhile debate although it may seem a bit arid to some observers and we need to make sure we do not get too academic about it. Would you agree with me that around the world probably the single greatest source of income for city governments tends to be, in one shape or form, from properties? You have said a couple of times now that property taxes are so visible and so potent that virtually all political parties play 'chicken' with each other. Well, the opposite of 'chicken'; they are scared to look...

  • Balance of Taxation (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2012
    Nicky Gavron (AM): While we are on land and talking about the planning system, currently the Assembly's Planning Committee is looking at the community infrastructure levy (CIL). That is, to a certain extent, a fixed charge, although there are lots of complications because it is set different in different boroughs and there is not necessarily a duty to cooperate and so on. On top of that is the Mayor's own CIL. I was wondering, this CIL is for Crossrail, but is the Commission going to look beyond that to the way CIL might be used by the Mayor in the...

  • Tax Devolution (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 24 October 2012
    In the same spirit, how far are you going to frame for the Mayor any of the mechanisms he might be thinking about for the comprehensive spending review for London?

  • Sustainable Management System (Supplementary) [15]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Absolutely. I am aware of the Canary Wharf initiative, and I laud it. It is absolutely fantastic, and it is the kind of thing we want. We work very closely in north London with The College of North West London to try to look at the skills that will be needed in that area. Therefore, through the LSC and the further education colleges, it is absolutely essential that we work out the skills that are needed. That is what happened in Canary Wharf. They worked out the skills that were needed, and then were able to provide the training for...

  • Sustainable Management System (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    I think it would be very helpful if that were done, but also, if something which is accessible to local businesses who are not politicians like us ' who understand all these convoluted politician-speak reports ' something which they could understand and could understand how they could have access to tendering and contracts and get some of the benefits which they have been promised out of the Olympics. I hope that is possible, as well. The second question, then, is about employment training in the construction industry. My understanding is that there has already been quite a bit of work...

  • LDA Leadership in East London

    • Reference: 2004/0196-1
    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    How are you going to ensure that those living in Thames Gateway will have the necessary skills to access more of the new jobs created there? .

  • LDA Leadership in East London (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Perhaps I should declare that I was at that partnership board as well, and I welcome the work that you are doing on this. But my constituents in east London can, I think, be forgiven for being a bit cynical about regeneration in the area, because it is all very well to get investment bankers there, but very few local kids become investment bankers and the arrival of investment bankers very often, by driving up the land values, forces out SMEs in traditional old workshops, which have been a classic leg-up for people in east London in the past. They...

  • LDA Leadership in East London (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Business start-ups and SMEs set up, particularly by minority ethnic communities in east London, have been pretty fundamental in the last 20 years or so, and yet, if I look through East Ham, West Ham and Tower Hamlets, the sort of premises they used to occupy have disappeared. The ones that are now available are unaffordable. How are the LDA and the other partnerships going to intervene in that?

  • LDA Leadership in East London (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004

  • LDA Leadership in East London (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Meg Hillier
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    If the LDA is the agency, what resources are you going to need to be able to deliver?