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• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

Baroness Ford, you told the House of Commons' Select Committee that it could take an additional £450 million to convert the Olympic Park after the Games had finished. What would you achieve with that money?

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

Taking us back to the Village if I may, at the Select Committee hearing you mentioned that the Government had recently set up a programme, a Board, which enables you to have some influence over the actual Village. Can you tell us a bit more about it: has it met; what powers you are going to have; what changes are you envisaging and, obviously, how will you do the nominations?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

As the representative of Hackney, which you talked about as one of the landowners, and also it is linked to the relationship with communities, can you confirm how you are going to manage the priorities and the ambitions that are held by boroughs like Hackney, and any demands that will come through from the private sector? By this I mean, if we just stay with the Broadcast Centre, you will know, Baroness Ford, that schools and colleges certainly around Hackney have started to look at their curriculum and have started to look forward to the point that they will be...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

Realistically, would you hope to get extra money from national government or from the Mayor, or from both?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

Andrew Boff has already mentioned about the £450 million coming into the OPLC for the 25 year programme from 2013. It is the idea of this funny money coming in. You mentioned earlier the property development market for housing at the moment is quite poor. How much of this finance and the 40% land that you will be working on will actually go to housing for the community and, of that, how much will go towards council renting property? I do not understand the concept of affordable housing. How many houses do you intend to build on this complex and...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

I wanted to explore your not-for-profit status. My assumption, from what you are saying, is that, with the not-for-profit status of the Legacy Company, it is not, therefore, envisaged there will be any return to the shareholders at any point, and that any surplus that may or may not arise would be ploughed back into the Park effectively. You are saying it may be the case that actually it is the reverse; it is not only a not-for-profit company but it might be a, 'We need more money company' and that you might look to the shareholders for more money...

• Question by: Kit Malthouse
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

It sounds to me like you are saying, in coded language, that the retention of the athletics obligation is a disincentive, effectively, for commercial companies to come forward and use the stadium. Is that right?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

No, no, the last two. I will explain if you let me. The stadium for the Moscow 1980 Games, the first time it got used in any way was the 2008 Champions League Final, 28 years afterwards. We certainly do not want that situation. Last year we had the Rome Stadium. That was an Olympic Stadium in 1960 and that was, clearly, used by two clubs: Roma and Lazio. They did not seem to have any problems about their fans watching football around an athletics track, they are just as fanatical as any fans in London certainly, and they maintained...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

Like Dee I have some concerns about the athletics' commitment in the Stadium and I think one of the major stumbling blocks to making that Stadium have a viable legacy is the insistence on retaining the running track round it. I am not saying anything new in terms of saying the football clubs do not like playing in stadiums where there are athletics tracks round the pitch and the reasons for that are all very well documented. How many times is it anticipated that the Stadium would be used for athletics events, if the athletics track is retained - in...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

I never rabbit on! I was very impressed by Kit Malthouse's questions about commerciality. I may not reach the same conclusion as him in applying that to the questions about the Stadium. I think it does present us with some pretty hard challenges. Essentially that it is very difficult to have the intimacy of a football crowd close to the pitch, with an athletics stadium which has to be quite a lot bigger. I had two questions: one - which I am pretty sure you cannot answer, but perhaps we could get an answer to outside of here - is...