• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

Andrew Boff has already mentioned about the £450 million coming into the OPLC for the 25 year programme from 2013. It is the idea of this funny money coming in. You mentioned earlier the property development market for housing at the moment is quite poor. How much of this finance and the 40% land that you will be working on will actually go to housing for the community and, of that, how much will go towards council renting property? I do not understand the concept of affordable housing. How many houses do you intend to build on this complex and...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

Realistically, would you hope to get extra money from national government or from the Mayor, or from both?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

As the representative of Hackney, which you talked about as one of the landowners, and also it is linked to the relationship with communities, can you confirm how you are going to manage the priorities and the ambitions that are held by boroughs like Hackney, and any demands that will come through from the private sector? By this I mean, if we just stay with the Broadcast Centre, you will know, Baroness Ford, that schools and colleges certainly around Hackney have started to look at their curriculum and have started to look forward to the point that they will be...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

Taking us back to the Village if I may, at the Select Committee hearing you mentioned that the Government had recently set up a programme, a Board, which enables you to have some influence over the actual Village. Can you tell us a bit more about it: has it met; what powers you are going to have; what changes are you envisaging and, obviously, how will you do the nominations?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

Baroness Ford, you told the House of Commons' Select Committee that it could take an additional £450 million to convert the Olympic Park after the Games had finished. What would you achieve with that money?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 13 January 2010

Following on from the point that Andrew [Boff] was raising, you said there is going to be a budget line for your academies. How many staff are you envisaging will be working on this when you are going to be having, you say, about five to ten? What sort of figure are we talking about in your budget?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 13 January 2010

You will know that Members on this side are very sceptical of the role that the LDA is proposing to play in the establishment of academies. Do you not think it would be infinitely more sensible and more attuned to your statutory role if such monies as you have available for education were channelled into providing apprenticeships, training for real jobs, rather than what some of us see as a kind of Trojan horse for re-establishing the Inner London Education Authority?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 13 January 2010

Harvey, can I bring you back to the beginning when you mentioned the LDA objectives and one of them being international promotion? It is interesting, over Christmas reading things like The Economist, it was suggesting that the developing countries have come out of the recession much better than anyone had expected and that this has profound consequences on the rest of the world, including London. Hearing that, I understand that we do not now have an office in Delhi or Bombay, one of the leading BRIC countries and one of the countries that we can expect to trade with in...

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 13 January 2010

Good morning, gentlemen. We have heard about the fact of how London will survive without the LDA. We have also heard from Mr Duvall regarding the workings or possible wrong workings of the LDA. I want to touch on something that is a bit old and I hope is not going to occur again; that is perceived corruption within certain officers and employers of the LDA. One project comes to mind. I know it has been put to bed and I think it has been put to bed a bit too quickly; the Brixton project and the slap on the...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 13 January 2010

I just wanted to carry on a point that Len has already picked up around the spending against priorities because, at our Budget and Performance Committee last week, of which I am a Member, we heard, exactly as you have confirmed this morning, that you have some underspends from this year that you are taking as part of your funding package for next year. I cannot remember the number. I just simply want to put some numbers on these things so can you just remind me, was is about £16 million? What is the amount of underspend from this year...