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• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

One of the most troubling aspects of this affair is the extent to which national security is again being cited as a justification for all manner of action. I am not asking you, Sir Paul, to comment on that, as you would understand the national security implications, if any, of this affair. I would want to make a point that we see from Mumbai how some threats to our security are very real and the nation is now looking to you as Acting Commissioner to give impartial advice on national security matters. Can I put it to you that one...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Obviously we are at a fairly early stage of the process on some of these. I understand why Jenny (Jones) is raising the issue, but can I just have a commitment that as well as turning the policies into guidelines, you will also have some very clear targets or achievable goals particularly in relation to the legacy, so that in relation to this whole question of sustainability, and particularly in this question on food, we can actually see some legacy effects as well on this rather than just the Games themselves?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I wasn't expecting you to have the targets now but that these guidelines would actually be quite specific in terms of not just the Games themselves but the legacy aspect.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Is this your biggest worry, the budget? What keeps you awake at night, other than young children, if you have got them?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I am trying to get some sense of the light and the dark, whether it is finance, whether it is security.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

My interest is less how you control the cost - I trust you to do that - more the sense of the risk analysis. Is finance, making sure the budget does end in balance, as it were, the biggest issue or are there specific other management issues?