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• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

It is just a quick one. I understand that the delay at Hog Hill has been caused by you finding a particular wildlife there that needs to be preserved, and there has been six months delay to date. Can you guarantee us that it will not be a year's delay or 18 months' delay? Where are we with that?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So it has been sorted now and it will be finished by September? That is what you are saying?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So the newts will be rehoused?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I want to go back to jobs and I want to talk about the jobs that are your responsibility. Can you confirm for us the total amount of jobs projected? I was present at a recent presentation by your excellent Head of HR which really electrified the room, local communities, and put meat around the skeleton of the plans. I would like you to confirm with us here today the absolute numbers that you are expecting to employ. I also understand that you have employed - is it your first 500 or 5,000 people? I saw something printed this week...

• Reference: 2003/0299
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

What role will existing London sporting facilities play in the Olympics and is modernisation a key element of bid preparation? .

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

Thank you for that, Barbara. But, let me just push you. Are you saying that at this stage you do not envisage any large infrastructural build? I say this because I had a meeting with a number of people across London and they find that hard to believe, given what we have seen from other Olympics, and given what we have seen in Barcelona, when that stadium was not used; and given that we know that the Sydney stadium is empty unless there is a major game. So it is about assurance. Londoners would be quite happy if you are...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

I have two colleagues whose constituencies are in east London and they have some questions. Before I hand over to them, let me just ask a question. How can we use the transforming power of young people in our inner city areas, especially young people from ethnic minority communities, who, at their best, are some of the best sports performers, We note your appointment of Dalton Grant. Can you just tell us how you are actually going to put together a programme to include them from now, rather than call them at the ninth hour? Surely, now is an opportunity...