• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Of course, one of the complicating factors is that Stanhope have to give permission for any other member of the consortium to exit. Have you been in discussions with the members of the consortium to make sure that this does not cause any problems in the run up to what we hope is a successful bid and its delivery?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

I just want to return to some answers that you gave me last time on the issue around the Olympics in east London. You very categorically reassured me about the fact that almost all the 320-odd businesses in the Lower Lea Valley had been sorted, to everybody's satisfaction, with the LDA. Obviously, if we win the bid, which I hope we will, this is going to be an issue which is going to have to be resolved ' fairly speedily, too, to meet the timetable of regenerating the area and building the Olympic Village, etc., there. Apart from John Benson...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do you really believe that house builders will be able ' and, indeed, willing ' to construct homes for £60,000? Do you think it is a viable option?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Housing does have a number of counter-cyclical attributes to it, so in particular, at a time when the private sector might be reducing the amount of homes it is building, you might well simultaneously find that there is an increasing number of people in housing need on waiting lists, whose incomes, because of unemployment or whatever, make it less easy for them to access that housing. It is part of the same pipeline. At times like that, traditionally, governments have facilitated social house building or other steps to stimulate the market. What role do you see London playing in that?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Will you be taking steps, when you get all these new powers, to close the loopholes that developers are currently using in order to get round this affordability, so that they are only doing one bedroom flats, instead of homes for families?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Finally, then, I am forever being lobbied by house builders ' and you can understand why they do this ' who want to offer sub-market, rented housing for short-term periods for people on moderate incomes. There is often a catch in this, but do you agree that there is a case for providing sub-market housing for rent, rather than just for sale, for people on moderate incomes, who do not need social housing?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

I think I heard you say that you thought that housing ought to be provided on the basis of income levels, rather than occupation. Did I hear you correctly?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do you not accept that this idea that there should not be some kind of preferential treatment for people ' and I take the point you make about the lady who pushes a trolley is as important as the surgeon ' that by making this change, that is really going to strike at the heart of local education authorities (LEAs) in London, and it is going to strike at the heart of health authorities, where they are finding it infinitely more difficult to recruit teachers and skilled workers in the health service than they are finding it to recruit people...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do you think that Mayor of London has a role ' and again I suspect the answer is `yes,' and I would like to hear how that will be exercised ' in influencing Government to secure additional funding for social housing?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do you have breakdown between inner London and outer London on these 4,250 dwellings?