• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

We need a comment on it.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Did Kate Barker pick it up effectively, as far as you are aware?

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Are they going to give you the half a billion that is required over the next 10 years?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

I am sure we will all feel completely safe in the hands of developers here in London, especially putting in an environmental project that they probably do not have very much sympathy for in the first place. I just think it is incredibly premature to start planning homes, houses or buildings before we have actually had any sort of flood management assessment. I think it is expected in 2008 or 2009, the interim results are going to be in May this year, apparently, but plans are already in hand. How can you possibly do that?

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

Do you accept that all sustainable construction skills now must be integrated into general construction training and apprenticeships? Are you pressing for that?

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

You have mentioned the Mayor's energy objectives. Specifically on that, what steps have you taken to assess the number and type of skilled technicians in delivering some of that? There are some very specific objectives, such as by 2010: 400,000 energy-efficient homes, 7,000 VB installations, X number of wind turbines and so on.

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Just going on from that, there are two areas I think we wanted to dig in a little bit on. The first question is around the evidence that came from the London Renewables group, which the LDA are participating in. The consultant there said that the problem is not to do with skills today, but to do with regulation today, because there are a lot of ersatz double-glazing salesmen who are putting solar panels on roofs. Does the LDA have a role in terms of looking at regulation? That is part of the confidence in building a renewables industry, i.e...