The London Development Agency has denied that London Mayor Boris Johnston had any involvement in the decision to make London Climate Change Authority chief executive Allan Jones redundant.

The agency has said that Allan Jones has been made redundant from his position as chief executive of the LCCA as part of what the LDA describes as a 鈥渞estructure and review鈥� of the role that the LCCA has played to date.

A LDA spokesperson said: 鈥淎llan has left and his post has been made redundant but the story that the Mayor was involved is totally erroneous.鈥�

This statement was confirmed by the Mayor鈥檚 press office, who said that the move was 鈥渃ompletely an LDA decision.鈥�

A spokesperson for the LDA said: 鈥淲e鈥檝e been going through a restructure across everything, not just climate change. The agency is looking to integrate climate change more into its core work and we鈥檙e reviewing the way in which we do that. Just because the post of director has been made redundant in now way means that we鈥檙e going to stop our climate change work. In fact, we鈥檙e going to invest more in that work over the next four or five years.鈥�

Allan has left and his post has been made redundant but the story that the Mayor was involved is totally erroneous

LDA spokesperson

Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone hired Jones back in 2004 as an advisor on renewable energy and climate change. He joined following a successful period with Woking council which saw the town become home to the country鈥檚 first private wire network of combined heat and power (CHP) plant, and a 77% reduction in CO2 emissions from public buildings.

The LDA said that it was committed to meeting the Mayor鈥檚 carbon reduction targets and that its current budget plan included 拢80m over the next four years in order to do so.

In its official statement, the LDA said: 鈥淭he London Climate Change Agency is only one of a number of the London Development Agency's climate change initiatives and accounts for one fifth of its current spending in this area. The LDA is reviewing how to strengthen its environmental impact to establish how best to achieve genuine carbon reductions and value for money linking our environmental work more closely to our core work on land development and regeneration . Whether the London Climate Change Agency as a separate legal entity is the most effective way to achieve our environmental goals, forms part of this review.鈥�

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