• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

So why have you set such a low limit? Why not 25% or 30%?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

We are referring to the programmes which the boroughs have already subscribed to, which was not the 50% target. I need only refer you to those boroughs which said that they did not want 50% - that said they wanted 40% - and those boroughs provided, in their 40%, infinitely more houses than the total. I merely refer you to a borough like Richmond which produced 300% more than the target.

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Why do not you simply address yourself to last year's figure, which was the only year where the Mayor reached his target.

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Before we move on to the next question I wonder if I could just ask you this: you have referred, Neale and David, to the relatively short time period covered by the Strategy. Leaving aside issues of the outcomes of elections and so on, what is anticipated in terms of roll forward of the Strategy, revision after it has been adopted and when a new one would come, or a revised one would come, onto the stocks to take us beyond 2011?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Why then has the Mayor opposed, for example, what Wandsworth has been doing to bring back empty homes into the housing market?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Does that mean that the figures that you previously published, for all the previous years, were made up?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Well it has failed. It has failed, hasn't it?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I have a couple of specific questions; maybe I will cover them all together. First of all, is it just going to be for two years and will you ensure that the additional money will go to those schemes, many of which are working very successfully, rather than try to reinvent the wheel with trying to identify other schemes? Will young people decide how the offer money is going to be spent, and can you confirm that the targeted offer will be distributed to small groups with multiple needs?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

It seems like a very good scheme. Can I ask how this funding can be accessed by local communities?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Three years or two years?