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• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

I want to concentrate on the Economic Recovery Action Plan. What proportion of the LDA initiatives referred to in that action plan consist of new measures? Just roughly and not down to the finest detail. What are actually new measures in that recovery plan in terms of the challenges we face? Who is going to answer?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

Thank you. Hopefully, with time, I have two lines of questions. The first one is that there was a lot of criticism before the last Mayoral election that the Mayor's Office used the LDA as a piggybank, if you like, for various projects, and there was a lot of heat about this, and I think you put in place processes, which I broadly support, for making sure that there is clarity about those relationships, but we have had so far, I think, two directions from the Mayor's Office. The first one was to spend money on sports infrastructure, which you...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

If I can just pick that up. I think Len [Duvall] mentioned earlier that there is an underspend this year at the LDA. Is that not the case? £25 million has been suggested in the paperwork, I think.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 18 March 2009

Thank you, Chair. Just following on from Val [Shawcross] on the training programmes, the LDA have withdrawn the funding from King's Cross Construction Training Centre, and Camden Council has been forced to step in. Are you aware that the funding that Camden has been able to provide is less than that which was originally provided by the LDA? Secondly, how is possible to justify such cuts in skills training in an area of such acute economic deprivation, and given that King's Cross is a strategic site, why should it be just the people of Camden who fund the training centre...