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• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Thank you, Chair. I would like to take a step back as we look towards legacy. We are all aware in this Chamber that the host boroughs of east London are some of the poorest locations in the capital. 70,000 unemployed adults are in the seven east London boroughs that neighbour the Olympic site. I am looking at the foundations of a legacy. How is it possible to truly call this a legacy when, at this moment in time, of the 5,381 employed people on the site, only 20% are from the five hosting boroughs and 48% are non-British? This...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

I am interested in the cost of running the sports venues once they are into legacy mode. I understand that the OPLC will be responsible for the Stadium, the Aquatics Centre, the mixed sports venue and the tower. Do you expect the sports venues will require public subsidy once they are in legacy mode to keep them afloat, or will they stand on their own two feet?

• 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...