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• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Can I come to the sports legacy which has been touched on briefly by Gareth on the public subsidies. I am concerned that we do not have the Wimbledon effect which is we only play tennis for a few weeks after the Games and that is it. The role you play in that: firstly, what are you doing to help the Mayor achieve his 90% community use target for the Olympic Park in legacy?

• Reference: 2010/0063-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

In the physical legacy has everything been done to incorporate the waterways on the main Olympic site both during and after the Games?

• 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: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

I just wanted to generally raise some environmental issues and I think the main one here in the legacy is the Olympic Park and how that is going to be managed in the future. Could you just tell me how you intend to tender that, what specifications you have got in mind to deal with that and who you think is going to be interested in managing that major part of the legacy, which will probably be around for a lot longer than other things?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Finally, given that you have milestones and key milestones and a set date to achieve it, would it not have been better to have set up bonus payments rather than contingency sums, given that is going to be the name of the game - getting to key stages at key times at critical points? Clearly we would rather be giving them money for achieving that, rather than spending their time making those claims, which invariably half the building trade does.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Sir Roy, if we accept the Government figures as the upper limits to the expenditure on the Olympics, I think the key thing is the management of the contingencies. I am worried that we find ourselves in contracts with contractors who then spend most of their time making claims for the contingencies. They are very generous; about 60% of the build costs. I have certainly had that experience of managing projects myself. What do you have lined up in the procurement arrangements with contractors which make sure they focus and achieve the milestones, rather than putting in the estimators to...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

You have mentioned the Cabinet Committees that are keeping an eye on this. Surely the building contract and the legality of that will supersede anything that they can decide about which contingency sums can be drawn from or not.