• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

We all know you can adjust the ward deprivation figures for whichever agenda you want to deliver. Could you tell me how much has been spent in the London Borough of Barnet?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

They want to be able to provide food and drink etc to the businesses that they already supply flowers and vegetables to, for instance into hotels in London.

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

We know our place in south London, which is not to get very much money from the LDA. But I reckon under the new leadership of the LDA there is a greater emphasis upon south London and what is being done in Crystal Palace. It was not something that was easy to get across when you go and market the new EDS, because of the limited amount of resources that the LDA has to offer, when you are talking to a south London audience. Our team there was given a fairly rough time. I would like to ask something very...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

What about priorities in terms of funding, resources and geographical spread and so on?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

On this leisure agenda, how can you ensure that pursuing that leisure agenda actually meets the long-term leisure needs of the local community and not just the short-term needs of an Olympics bid?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

I think we all appreciate that the LDA is making its financial allocations according to strategy, but you have already mentioned this morning that sometimes there is an element of demand and you have to pick up the pieces, and I think we are all grateful for the help at Crystal Palace. There is a particularly fragile local regeneration project at Streatham, which is a complex project, as you are probably aware. There is great concern that either this project may not come off or that there may be a long and, in our view, horrendous gap in the provision...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

It is unusual that we get some good news out of this meeting. Certainly local residents will be pleased with what they have got from you this morning Mr Mayor. However, there will be concerns around the Romford proposal. Can I ask you to undertake a proper and detailed consultation with the people who will be affected, not only in Romford but also in the part of Dagenham which will be affected by this? Not only looking at the loss of green space, but also the potential disruption to the local community during the building work. Obviously, we are in...

• Question by: Noel Lynch
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

I am sure the people who are here from Maylands Field will be delighted. However, the people from Romford who are going to lose a playing field and other green sites will not be pleased. My advice is that the depot at Ilford could be used. There were 38 other places rejected on what seemed to us very skimpy evidence. Locally you had a word in their ear, but we had some of your people putting up places that are in green field sites, which seems to me to be against your great ideas of protecting green field sites. Is...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

There are a lot of cooks in this broth. But I am glad that you have clearly identified the Mayor as chief chef. The Mayor, in an answer in Mayor's Question Time on 25 February, said that the Thames Gateway was a `magical place'. I just wondered whether you knew what his magical vision was? What is he talking about? Do all of the people and all of the cooks share this vision? Could you just expand a little on this, if you are aware of it? Or is it about waving wands?