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  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [15]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    My final point is this: the people who have been taken for a ride here are the public, aren't they? Part of the design of that bid document was for public consumption, to ensure that opinion polls did not race away against the idea of the Olympic Games in the first place as it might have made us an unpopular venue as far as the IOC was concerned. It was the public that was being lulled into a false sense of security about this when all along the professionals and those who are used to this kind of bidding knew...

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [16]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    There is only one single bidder now for the Aquatics Centre. Have you got any concerns about that process and does that place the project in any jeopardy?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [20]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    London can expect no more shocks?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [21]

    • Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Are you aware that there is a suspicion that there might be radioactive waste on the site? There were two instances I have come across. One was dumped in 1959 and another was dumped in 1953 and in both instances they say that the waste was possibly radioactive.

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [23]

    • Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    I attended the meeting in Hackney Wick about a couple of weeks ago when people were actually complaining about the dust that was flying around, particularly over the Clays Lane Estate and in that general area. People actually said, 'Having inhaled this dust I felt a real sore throat and burning eyes and burning lips,' and people were coming up to me after the meeting saying, 'Can you do anything about this?' I felt that there was a real concern. Now I know that there has been quite a lot of contamination on that site. I have documents here which...

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [24]

    • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Can I just firstly thank Peter for his interest in my constituents and ask David [Higgins], would he agree with me that there are clear issues that we have to stay on top of. For instance, the travellers have still got to be dealt with. I have seen information that is suggesting that monitoring is going on. What I am not seeing is any written evidence about that, so I think what you could do, certainly to help Peter, myself and others, is to actually release information about the monitoring. I think that would help the different bodies interested in...

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [25]

    • Question by: Dee Doocey
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    I have got two questions. The first is for John Armitt; could I bring you back to the budget please, and just for clarity I am talking about the £9.3 billion budget. Within that budget you have allocated just over £1 billion for venues. The press reported that the stadium costs have gone up to £500 million and that proved correct. They are also saying that the Aquatics Centre has gone up to £150 million so I am assuming, for the purpose of this discussion, that that is also correct. If that is the case it means that you have...

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [26]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    I understand that, but if Londoners might end up picking up the bill for the gap of £75 million then perhaps they might be interested in it. Are we comparing like for like now in terms of what the original bid was? I understand an access bridge has now been added to the Aquatics Centre and that has clearly inflated the budget for the Aquatics Centre. Whilst we talk about an Aquatics Centre now, as we did some time ago, we are not actually talking about the same project, are we?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [27]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Hopefully by Christmas there will not be people living within the Olympic Park who will be subject to such immediate environmental challenges and problems. However, for the wider community, including people I represent across East London and including Jennette's [Arnold] constituency in Hackney and beyond, I think people would be a lot more reassured if we go back to the point that was made earlier about transparency; if there was a clear transparency about environmental information about dust levels and about pollution issues. I know I have been intimately involved in the issue about radioactive waste, for example, and I...

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [31]

    • Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Alright, and your contractors, those people who are actually working on the site, driving these vehicles and what have you, are they properly protected, using properly protective clothing and all the rest?