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• Reference: 2001/0202-1
• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

Do you share the Labour group's view that the LDA's ability to deliver the best result for London depends on, and cannot be separated from, its accountability to its delivery partners and the general public? .

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

I'm heartened to hear that. I just would hope that we have a fairly swift time-scale on it. GLA members are entitled to receive papers as they come out, which would be a good starting point. Then we can keep an eye on things too.

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

I was going to ask on behalf of the Assembly whether, understanding that these things are organic and so on, you can put a date on when we might expect to hear from you on this. I think it would be very helpful to get it into our own timetable.

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

Thank you. I won't dwell on that -- we've already had a long discussion on this but I think that you might have picked up that perhaps the Assembly doesn't quite share your optimistic view about how open and accountable the LDA is. But we've heard what you have got to say and are pleased that you are keen to move it in what we would see as the right direction. Last, to focus on four quick points really and a chance to pursue a point that was raised earlier. Firstly, two on the budget. If I could just ask...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

It just seemed odd to me that I discovered that you were doing this internal review when I read the audit report, which was at the same time that you wrote to me, but it wasn't mentioned. I think we've hopefully all learned from this and clearly we will now rush to get to LDA parties, even if they improve " there wasn"t much on offer for £280 a head, I can tell you. Moving on to more substantial part of the budget, the bit that really affects ordinary Londoners - and I think there was a regrettable incident there...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

I'm sure that many of us round this table would be happy to apply any political pressure that you might feel would be useful on that, because there are extraneous circumstances in this case. I'm heartened by what George Barlow said about robust financial measures in general, because I think this is something that will be of real concern to people out there on the ground who are losing out. Can I move on and pick up a little bit on the same point really, about the split that exists in London between economic development and social regeneration. The LDA...