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  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [18]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    They were lobbying to get their businesses. They were lobbying.

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [19]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    One thing that I am concerned about: you talked about compensation and about being fair and within codes. What does this mean, in real terms, to the businesses affected? I will explain the reason why I am asking this. Many of the businesses have come to me ' and, in fact, come to many fellow Assembly Members ' and have made clear that the terms they are being offered mean they will have to spend anything up to 20%, 30%, or 40% more from either existing reserves or raised money to be able to continue on the promised like-for-like basis...

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [21]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    You say `overpay.'

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [22]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    This is not like-for-like, is it? I am looking at a number of businesses, like Sortex, M Laurier and Sons, all of whom have made public statements, `We would be delighted with just simply like-for-like. We do not want to make any money. We were promised that.' What they are going to be, if anything ' £600,000 short. Let me just put it to you: if I came to you and wanted to take your flat in the area or house in the area, and then what happened was that in the process of all this, I took it from...

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [25]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Mayor, how can you honestly suggest that these people would lobby against the Games? They were lobbying for their interests. Many of them stand to go bust. Many of them stand to genuinely lose their business. I am a businessman. Sally Hamwee (Chair): I said a short question. Damian Hockney (AM): I know if I were offered that compensation, I would be dead.

  • Compulsory Purchase (Supplementary) [26]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Like (Robert) Mugabe (president of Zimbabwe) ' exactly.

  • Funding (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Can I just put it to you that I do think that you are reneging on your duty as the man who is meant to lead for London's interest. It is absolutely clear that, if there had been a review, it is not a matter of you rolling over. You could have used the opportunity, could you not, to press for some guarantees? You said yourself that you do not think Londoners should pay a penny more than they are already committed to ' the £625 million. The fact is, however, that this Memorandum of Understanding hangs over us like...

  • Funding (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Let us stick with the point, shall we?

  • Funding (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Personal abuse tends to suggest I am winning the argument, by the way. I was always taught that. I will put it to you one more time: is it not a good opportunity for you to show how you can flex your muscles as Mayor of London, and at the very least press for some kind of guarantee that whatever the overspend is ' and I am hoping it is not going to be great; let us hope it is the most efficiently-delivered bid of all ' that would be fantastic ' but let us also have a belt and...

  • Funding (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2005
    Why are you not using the review to do that?