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• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Sir Roy, how much of the £500 million construction contingency has so far been earmarked to be spent? There has been a lot of talk about this and a lot of rumours in the industry.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

My only point really on this is that it is in that area where costs can so easily run away. In the industry, there are rumours; you speak to any of the major contractors or the journalists in the area, and they will tell you that £350 million of the £500 million has so far been earmarked, and that insiders within the ODA have told them this.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So it will not go to CLM (CH2M Hill International, Laing O'Rourke, Mace)? They will not be the people who will do it?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

The fact that so few people appear to have tendered for the Aquatic Centre does that not concern you in terms of possibilities?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So if that £500 million contingency can last up to the end of next year, then how much more of the overall contingency budget that the Government has aside, which has been the cause of so much controversy, do you think you will need?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So there will be a tenant, somebody who will use that facility afterwards?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I am already working with LOCOG, in fact, but I was concerned about your aspect of it and if that is something that you are working on?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

One of my roles is as Chair of London Food, which is a Mayoral Commission, and we are trying to reduce London's ecological footprint. One of the legacy aspects of all the work that you are doing now is if we can encourage farmers to start producing food for the Olympics and beyond, local food, that will reduce our carbon emissions, reduce our ecological footprint. Do you feel you have enough advice on that at the moment? Do you feel it is something perhaps you could know more about? It is an issue both of capacity building within British farmers...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So you are guaranteeing that we are seeing no reduction whatsoever in the amount of public open space?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So the other pieces of public open space which are not contained in this application will be in other applications or have been agreed already?