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The Economic and Social Development Committee

Between 2002 and 2004, Mike chaired the London Assembly’s Economic and Social Development Committee and led for the Liberal Democrats on regeneration and related issues, from inner cities to outer suburbs, including affordable housing, unemployment, low pay, small firms, the City, inward investment and the impact of globalisation. 

Some of the topics addressed by the Committee are listed below. 

• how to best target regeneration resources on those most in need
• London Weighting - taking forward the report of an independent Advisory Panel which recommended an alternative methodology for setting public sector pay.
• E-government in London - a scrutiny of London Connects
• The Role of the Public/Private Sectors in contributing to economic and social development - looking beyond special funding programmes and challenging main spending programmes and private firms to think about the economic and social regeneration potential of their own activities.
• Scrutiny of the Mayor's revised Economic Development Strategy
• Quarterly monitoring and review of LDA performance against its Framework and national targets
• Affordable housing and homelessness prevention
• Inward Investment
• London's affordable housing provision 
• Social Enterprises
• Alternative regeneration funding mechanisms

Formal scrutinies undertaken included the following:

• Financing the Future: a report on innovative financing mechanisms for major regeneration projects
  May 2004
• Regeneration, Competitiveness and Sustainable Development 
  April 2004 
• Inward Investment 
  April 2004
• Social Enterprises 
  April 2004 
• No room for complacency.. affordable housing 
  March 2004
• Scrutiny of the Mayor's Revised Economic Development Strategy 
  December 2003
• Applying the London Premium 
  October 2003 
• E-Government - examines what progress has been made in the delivery of electronic government in London 
  July 2003 
• Breaking down the barriers - the impact of current funding and co-ordination arrangements at grass roots level 
  July 2003 
• London Weighting - Report of the London Weighting Advisory Panel 
  June 2002 
• Rebuilding London's Future: Report of the London Assembly's Economic Development Committee
  March 2002

Copies of previous ESDC scrutiny reports from the period May 2002 to May 2004 are available from: http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/reports/econsd.jsp