• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

There are three in my constituency; West Finchley of course I use on a daily basis as it is at the bottom of the road I live in. I am the Councillor for the area including Totteridge and Whetstone Station. Particularly around West Finchley, over the years there have been many rumours of the station's imminent closure. For my residents living at Mill Hill East - where we have recently downgraded the Northern Line service in that it is now a shuttle from Finchley Central to Mill Hill East, rather than a through service, and with that hugely expensive viaduct...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

I used to go out with the Simon Community every Sunday morning at 5 am to do a soup and sandwiches run. It is perfectly true that the figures for the homeless are far higher than anything the Government ever put forward. We used to do a little circuit of a bit of Camden and South Westminster. Judging from today's Evening Standard, you seem to think that we have got quite a lot of time on our hands, so I was just wondering if perhaps you and all of us could turn up on one Sunday morning and do a...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 20 June 2007

Where then do you stand on your election pledge that crime would be cut by 50% once the neighbourhood teams have been rolled out and policing numbers have risen?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

The Assembly report is absolutely clear. You quote one part of it, but if you look at another part it says that there are concerns that London's long-term plan of regeneration is repeating the weakness of previous Games, and that the previous Games had practically no legacy of permanent employment results. My issue is this; I have looked at the jobs that have been lost, and there seem to be about 5,000 jobs that have gone from that area forever. Some have been exported to Essex; OK, fine, people are still working, but the employers who were in that area...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

Also, for the record, is it not the case that Tower Hamlets currently has the strongest job growth of any London borough, primarily because of Canary Wharf; that Newham will have significant job growth around Stratford City; and that the representation that suggests that East London's economy is not growing is basically ignorant? The real challenge for my constituents is to make sure those jobs are accessible for people with the qualifications coming out of schools, people who need to be redeployed from jobs that are disappearing from the area, and that is the challenge that the LDA primarily has...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

The key is, as I said, surely you see that these jobs have practically all been exported from those boroughs. What I am looking for is to know what exact jobs are going to arrive in those boroughs, some of the most deprived boroughs in the country, what jobs are they going to have after the Games?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

I would not want the record of this meeting to contain such flagrant misrepresentations as the questioner put into it. I have two questions. The first one is, just for the record, can you clarify that a large number of the Olympic jobs are being relocated to new premises within the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Newham and, to some extent, Tower Hamlets, but also Barking and Dagenham, which is not one of the five boroughs? They are remaining in East London.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

Chair, apologies to colleagues. I am late because I came from a meeting with young people in my borough, which is one of the five Olympic boroughs. What they are excited about is tomorrow's launch of the Construction Skills Centre in Leyton. I wanted to ask the Mayor whether he welcomes this development which he has been part of pushing. Also, following on from what Damian [Hockney] was saying, do we have to add extra resources in terms of communicating what is happening within the five [Olympic] boroughs so that we can move people like Damian on? If we do...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

I think perhaps what Angie [Bray] was saying was that you were going to recruit those police officers anyway, but now fortuitously they are being presented as dealing with an anti-social behaviour problem that was not there at the time you made the decision, so there are other things they may not be doing.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

You say that TfL is only applying for one at the moment, although others are in mind, and that special circumstances are going to apply before TfL will apply for ASBOs rather than the Transport Police or another Agency doing it. What are those special circumstances? What are the criteria you are applying?