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  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    Does that include taking advice from the people on Lord James of Blackheath's team who had to bail out some of the consequences of the Dome? The police were involved in that.

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    The trouble that I have is that the more one departs from basic commercial practice, when we fall into public sector practice, the greater the risk, history tells us, of budget overruns.

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    Can I come, Sir Roy, back to a point that Mr Higgins made in relation to our earlier discussions? I am concerned about the extent to which bottom up budgeting is really being regarded as being acceptable at all. Would you not accept that one of the lessons I think that we have learned from projects like the Dome and other public sector projects is that, by and large, you should start from the revenue generation figure, and be very reluctant about bottom up budgeting, because that is where you get `creep'? If you have the revenue regeneration figure as...

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    ): I am grateful for that. When we looked at past history, things like Wembley and the Dome, one thing which tended to cause further increases in budgets was, regrettably, elements of fraud, sometimes sub-contractor fraud, and a lack of control over sub-contractor costs. What lessons have we learnt? What systems are being put in place to bear down upon that in a way which did not happen, perhaps, in some of those other projects?

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    Have you spoken to Lord James and his team?

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [23]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    ): The soil condition is an interesting point that you mention because we have seen the Zetica Report published recently, which deals with the whole question of number of bombs and so on that were found and some assessed as high risk. Can you give us any sense as to what extent that may affect either costs or timetable?

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [26]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    Have any of you, collectively?

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [28]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    You don't want to reinvent the wheel.

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [30]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    So you do not see that as a major risk in financial terms?