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Olympic plans must have local benefits
15 June 2007
I've been working for Tower Hamlets on developing its Olympic strategy. Not being a complex person - though willing to be devious in the public interest when required - my cunning Olympic plan is simple. It's the three Ps: procurement (P1), programmes (P2) and politics (P3). P1 is obvious. When buying services or recruiting staff, all the public and private agencies building the Games and legacy should procure as much as possible of both locally. Programmes (P2) are required in support of P1 as no benefits will automatically fall to local communities unless the public and private sectors put initiatives together which, say, train local people or enable local companies to understand the relevant commercial requirements so they can win contracts.
Smart approach to tracking progress
8 June 2007
I turned 50 on Monday. Yes, I know, I don't look a day over 49. To celebrate, I walked up Table Mountain in Wales with friends and family, got wasted and, somewhat sadly, spent hours talking about the delivery of government policy. I was assisted in the latter activity by my friend Prof/Sir/Big Cheese Michael Barber, founding head of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit, who knows about such stuff.
No alternative but selection by ability
1 June 2007
I won't be drawn on the subject of Hips other than I currently have two of them and they give me that balance for which I'm famous. I've probably signed some official secrets acts in my time, so you'll have to wait until my memoirs - Yes but no but yes Minister - for my true views. I can say that I've just had to drop the asking price of my flat because the market got soft during this period of innovative policy development. Two cheers for democracy.
Housing wealth may be key to business
18 May 2007
I learned something the other day. I learned the key reason why some areas have high entrepreneurial activity and rates of company formation and others don't. It's the simple, obvious and big fact (or SOBF) that the former have higher levels of home-ownership and the latter higher levels of social housing.
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