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• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 02 March 2016

Andrew Dismore AM: I would like to ask you some questions about the Orbit [Arcelor Mittal Orbit] and perhaps I could start by just establishing what I think are the agreed facts. You originally expected the Orbit to have 350,000 visitors a year. In 2014/15 there were only 124,000, a third of those forecast. In 2015/16 the target is 163,000 but by September 2015, halfway through the year, only 68,000 people had come and of course that was over the summer. That is 42%. You are losing about £10,000 a week. The 2016/17 visitor target is 239,000, rising to 261,000...

• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 02 March 2016

Andrew Dismore AM: In answer to Fiona [Fiona Twycross AM] and others, you again went back to the issue of transparency and I would like to come back to the West Ham deal. I have here a copy of the West Ham concession agreement, which I assume you have read. [--] Andrew Dismore AM: This is the redacted copy. I do not understand, for example, why in section 28 your arrangements for the police are redacted. Presumably, that is something that we can get from the police anyway. If you look at this document, page after page after page is...