• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Mr Mayor, could we come back to the central issue which is of course the Olympic site and the affordable housing that you are going to insist on for that site and equally look at the land sales issue, which I think is central to this. At Mayor's Question Time on 30 January and then on 13 February you committed to me and the Assembly to provide the spreadsheet that details your calculations as to how you will realise £3.2 billion worth of sales. You still have not provided it. Why not?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Mayor, do you think in light of the total hostility to the London 2012 Games that Tony Arbour and his Group have had ever since the announcement of the Games coming to London that they have totally lost the plot and that what they failed time and time again to understand is the benefits that are going to come out of the Olympic sites, one of them being the homes for local people? Is it a case that they have no idea about the situation in east London and that is why they continue to ask these ridiculous questions?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Where does that anything between 6% to 17% come into that, because this must automatically increase the value of at least a sizeable percentage of that land?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Does that mean you do support low density development then?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

When? When can we have the spreadsheet, Mr Mayor?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

The issue that we should really be raising with you is about the definition about affordability, because I think there is an issue here. I have a problem with the general use of affordability because clearly what is affordable to the people who support Tony Arbour ' wherever that is ' that is different to, say, members of my constituents and the people of east London. It is that that I would like some more work done on. Will you be looking to do some more detailed work about affordability so that we can link affordability with income in a...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Are you denying the Assembly this spreadsheet?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

It would be good to get the answer. There are lots of really good models about cooperative housing structures. Are you influencing the plans to ensure that we have a wider mix, so it is not just the known housing associations that are already geared up to bid and go in there and take it all; that we will have a wider offer in this area?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

One of the reasons, Mayor, why I think my colleagues on the left are confused ' and there are many but this is on this particular issue is, does the analysis on this spreadsheet include figures for land values where the use of the land can be changed? There are some situations over there where I remember that if the use were to be changed, the value could be increased up to five fold. Does this analysis include that figure?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Mr Mayor, that is fine, but, very simply, you have had two weeks to provide this. Does it exist or not?