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  • Opening Statement (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Richard Barnbrook
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2008
    Considering the increase in severity of the economic downturn and also the reduction in the value of the pound, can we be assured that there will be no more burden put on Londoners with regards an increase in the Council Tax to actually cover the Olympic project?
  • Opening Statement (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Brian Coleman
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2008
    Lord Coe, you mentioned sponsorship and your level-two agreement with Cadbury. Which of Cadbury's products support the healthy living agenda of the Olympics? Jenny Jones (AM): Good question!
  • Opening Statement (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2008
    I hesitate to come in but it is always nice to follow the flat earth wing of the Tory Party. Would you not agree that a different interpretation of the sponsorship issue is that the Olympics must grandstand British business if at all possible, and be used to highlight our success, and that we should celebrate that? Indeed, if we wanted to be pernickety about this we could highlight the fact that historically Cadbury, I think, come from a Quaker background and they actually have a very strong history in terms of ploughing the furrow of early social concern as...
  • Opening Statement (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2008
    This is not my attempt to get the gold medal for bean counting but you gave us an update on the sponsorship - Paul mentioned the ticket revenues - but the big cash cow is really TV revenue. My experience out in Beijing was certainly that the Chinese are hooked on Olympic gold and I dare say China Central Television (CCTV), Chinese national TV, will pay quite a big price for the rights in London 2012. In some ways we are fortunate to be in this position with two markets: North America and the Chinese market. Given they only paid...
  • Opening Statement (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Richard Barnbrook
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2008
    Richard Barnbrook (AM): Good morning, Lord Coe and Paul Deighton. Could you assure the Assembly here that all of the Olympic Games will be available on terrestrial television and not cherry-picked by subscribers on a pay-per-view service?
  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [39]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Even when there is going to be an expanding TV market?
  • Congestion Charge - Additional Costs to Businesses (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 06 December 2006
    Do you ask this question though; are your delivery companies and so on charging you?
  • Public Announcement Noise at Tube Stations (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 18 November 2006
    I do often go through Earl's Court, simply because I can never get a Circle Line Tube, so I have to go there to get onto a District Line to go down in that part of West London. Should the emphasis not actually be on electronic information and the signs there being replaced as quickly as possible with electronic information, rather than putting it out on a tannoy, which I actually have not heard ever whenever I pass right through Earl's Court?
  • Progress Update

    • Reference: 2006/0128-1
    • Question by: Sally Hamwee
    • Meeting date: 11 October 2006
    Can you provide an overview of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games and what you have achieved so far?
  • Living Wage (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 10 October 2006
    But will contractors be expected to comply with it even if there are circumstances where that may not happen for some reason but will they be expected to comply with it?