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  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [6]

    • 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?

  • 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) [8]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    How great is the budget for this security process, during the build phase of the building site?

  • 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) [10]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    So, at this moment, the total budgeting costs for security are approximately £1.4 billion then, if one conflates the two figures?

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    Yes, but on top of that is the £600 million for the Metropolitan Police?

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Brian Coleman
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    But then you add the £600 million on top and you get £1,400 million?

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    We appreciate that, but it is all public money for security?

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [14]

    • 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?

  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [15]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    Since the award of the Games, international events have clearly impacted upon a significant element of the budget which is the security aspect of it. Most of us have concentrated on the issue of the security for the period of the Games itself, to ensure that London, the athletes and the Games are safe. However, we now have already entered into the build phase. I was intimately involved in the building of T5 (Terminal 5) and I recognise the security that was involved in protecting that site. What steps have you taken to protect the site down at the Olympic...