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• Reference: 2003/0300
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

How can we ensure that the Games leave a lasting legacy, not just in facilities and infrastructure but also in the lives of ordinary Londoners, for example their enthusiasm for and participation in grass roots sports? Are there any plans to secure lasting sporting initiatives for Londoners such as free swimming for the under 18s for example? .

• Reference: 2003/0304
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

How will local communities across the capital be involved in developing the bid and delivering the Games? .

• Reference: 2003/0306
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

The Transport package for the bid gives the impression of gathering together existing transport projects (some of them highly speculative and with no guarantee of funding or necessary legislative time) and giving them a rather spurious "Olympic" gloss. Why would IOC take this package seriously? .

• Reference: 2003/0313
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

Are you all satisfied with the proposed financing arrangements for the Games themselves? In particular, should a way be found to ensure London's business community contributes to the cost of staging the Games, beyond TV rights and sponsorship, as it is the business sector that gains most from successful Games, according to financial projections? .

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

Thank you, Chair. The answer was very encouraging and dealt with a lot of our interests. Chair, you mentioned that we were in Brent last night for People's Question Time. The audience of several hundred people were asked what they thought was London's strongest asset. The answer, by what I think was a very substantial margin, was its people, by which I think we mean the cultural diversity and so on. If that is London's greatest strength - and I think many of us think it is - how will you be able to link that into the bid and...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

Thank you very much. Can I now turn to training facilities, which we talked about earlier. I think you mentioned in your introduction that 10 boroughs will actually have sporting events taking place in them. I must say I had not realised there would be that many. What about the other 22 boroughs? Obviously, they cannot have sporting events taking place there, but what about using their facilities for teams to train at?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

Barbara, how are you planning to use those stories, those opportunities, to really build enthusiasm among Londoners? Because there is some scepticism particularly from those who are more physically remote from the Lea Valley. There is some scepticism around whether they will benefit and these are the ways of engaging them. Can you give us some ideas of how you will be doing that?