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• Reference: 2006/0226-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

What criteria were used when the LDA decided to sponsor the Mayor's Caribbean Showcase event at a cost to the taxpayer of £215,000 (£120,000 directly and £95,000 through its offshoot "Creative London")?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Thank you for that. All the businesses I have spoken to, including of course Pullmans et al, have all said that there is no circumstance in which they -- they are clearly aware and they had never asked. Can you confirm then that some businesses have asked for amounts of four, five, six times the amount? Have they, because you have not actually answered that question? You said they have aspirations but the point is that the Mayor said that people ' in a very public statement in the Sun newspaper ' that they are asking, many businesses are asking...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Just very briefly: can you possibly confirm something for me? You mentioned obviously the uplift to £1 billion and I was not quite sure whether that was an uplift from the £743 million to £1 billion or for just the £478 million.

• Reference: 2005/0590-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Can the LDA confirm that no Marshgate Lane business has attempted to negotiate a deal based on the value that the land is likely to command (ie four or five times greater than the current market value of the premises) once it has been acquired by the LDA?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Then, of course, the thing you do not say during that ' the thing you do not say ' is that a large amount of that money has been wasted by yourselves, because these people started and got to heads of agreement terms last year on deals, which then incurred large amounts of lawyers', managers', project managers', and accountants' fees, and then you were the ones who stalled on it. I have a detail here of almost £200,000 worth of work done, which you have wasted. What is the most absurd thing ' and the fact that you are saying...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How much has the LDA paid on lawyers? How much has the LDA paid on lawyers?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

They were lobbying to get their businesses. They were lobbying.

• 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.

• Reference: 2005/0319-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

There have been calls from politicians in the House of Commons that the unquantified benefits of the Games should be shared by the whole of the UK. Have there been any offers made to you to share the multibillion pound cost of the Games.

• Reference: 2005/0322-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Do you think there may be the perception of a conflict of interest in that one of the LDA board members, is Managing Director of a company whose pension fund owns substantial property on the Marshgate Lane estate? (Mary Reilly/Tony Winterbottom)