• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

That was originally where I was going, but we seem to have unearthed a whole new interesting line of enquiry. Perhaps you could come back with a written response to say what is being done rather than us put you on the spot here.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

As long as the money is coming back, because they are going to make money using it.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

I saw that the LDA was putting a grant into some electricity substation, I cannot remember the details, and I thought `why is the LDA paying for electricity infrastructure?'

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Very briefly, two constituency-type questions. The first is about hospital provision in the area and I know there is a study which talks about numbers of GPs and primary health care facilities, but it is a very common question locally in east London as to whether that would be sufficient and whether we need a new primary hospital in the area. The second bit is this idea of a Royal Park, and I happen to be a republican, so I prefer to think of a `people's park'. The idea of having a regional park in the area, which is a...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Chair, I will not raise it again, because we have dealt with it. Thank you for the comprehensive response, which covered most of the issues that I wanted to raise. On the subject of waste disposal, obviously that is going to have implications for the waste authorities and for the local authorities there. What is being done to work with them and to deal with that issue?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Jeff (Jacobs) is enthusiastic to tell us how Thames Gateway has been taken into account in this masterplan.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

It would be very helpful to have the costings as far as they go on infrastructure issues. How advanced are we in terms of who is going to pay for all of this?