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• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Mr Higgins, when you came before us in June you explained that you were going to go through the budget in detail and work it up, and we had great sympathy for that, because obviously you have got to own your budget. It looks like you have done that, and you have submitted it to Government but, at that time, you thought we would have the budget by the end of the year. It now appears that the Government is squabbling again, presumably more departments fighting with each other. Obviously the timetable for the Olympics is not elastic, and I...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

So could you give us an estimated date when this Assembly will have the budget? You said it was going to be this December, what are you now saying?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

If the budget is delayed by Government, for whatever reason, is it possibly that, say, by June next year we could have the budget that you are working to so that we can do our job?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

We were assured at the time by the Mayor and everybody else that that was a robust costing. So you can imagine how depressed we feel when it turns out not to have been anything of the sort.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

With regard to those extra regeneration costs, can I ask will we be getting shortly some indication of the benefits that they will bring as well?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Mr Higgins has referred to work looking at contamination and moving spoil from the site. Does it look as though the decontamination cost issues are running to budget or over budget?

• Reference: 2006/0390-1
• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Mr Lemley was particularly concerned about the impact of political disagreements on the future of the main stadium. Is this not a repeat of exactly what went wrong at Wembley? We are particularly referring to the issue of whether it should be an athletics stadium or a premier league football stadium.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

A final question, Chair. Within the management structures of the policing across London, are you content that the command structure across London with the three police services will meet the challenge of the Olympic Games?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

Mayor, if you do not want to run Carnival, why run an event like the Showcase? If you look at Angie's (Bray) question just now this links into it You said initially in the first authorisation, that it would cost the GLA (Greater London Authority) £68,000. We then move on ' a few weeks later ' the day before the Carnival and we are told that Bliss Events are going to be paid £150,000.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

This is relevant Chair I assure you, honestly. Initially, you say that the balance of £230,000 would be met by sponsorship income and income from stalls. We tried even right up until the day before to find out where this is coming, and finally we learn, last week, that it is the LDA (London Development Agency) that is spending.