• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

The Mayoral Development Corporation will presumably have to be in conformity with the London Plan?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Could you tell me whether or not we will be able to scrutinise the Board itself or will all scrutiny from the Assembly take place through the Mayor?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Thank you, Chair. Cruel fate has dictated that I lead on this as well! I am very grateful for your opening comments. Can you tell us what progress you have made in your discussions with the boroughs in particular on how they might be affected, particularly on the planning powers?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

To pick up from what John was asking you, will you ensure that borough councillors and borough representatives will be on the new Board and representatives of the local communities?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

On the Corporation's Planning Committee you say there are going to be three elected borough politicians on that. Will they form the majority of the Planning Committee?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Can I just understand the numbers a bit better. You talked about the £56 million that was all that was committed up to now but we have got £85.6 million in the budgets for this current year. Is that £85.6 million funded or is there now more in this current year, 2011/12, than that number?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Yes, Chair. I am impressed the Mayor has created another functional body: Bacon for London! I have three areas of questioning - very briefly. The first is you are trying to clutch some sort of victory out of the jaws of defeat, I would suggest. The Government effectively abolished both the budgets and the entities of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) last year, while accepting that City Hall is going to have some economic regeneration capacity. I pay tribute to you personally because I know you have been scrambling in the background to try to persuade it that it made...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Thank you, Sir Simon. There has been a fog of uncertainty around the work connected with the LDA over recent months because of the issues around the settlement. Are we likely to see this fog lifted next week then when the Mayor will publish some detailed spending plans around the extra money that is coming forward?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Sir Simon, it is the job of the Labour Party to say it is all dreadful, being the rays of sunshine that they are, but in the context of this current climate this looks like a bit of a windfall. Can you tell me how the Mayor might be spending the unexpected amounts of money, especially --

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

You mentioned the youth priorities would be one of the things the Mayor could inform us about next week. This afternoon some Members of this Assembly are meeting to update ourselves on the Time for Action strands. We do know from the information we have to date that a lot of those programmes have been put on hold because of the concern about funding --