Mayor of London logo London Assembly logo
Home

Search questions

Filter results

Asked of 2

Meeting type

Organisation

Question by

Status

Year

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Are you saying then that within the budget which is within your control come 2012, there will be no further pool for uplift for that budget? You will not exceed that budget?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    On Tuesday at his press conference the Mayor said, 'The Aquatics Centre will be built on time and to budget.' Now, we are all aware that two days late is not good enough. Which budget do you think he is talking about?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    We are back to the Mayor's guess work, are we?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    How can we as an Assembly then monitor and spread confidence to Londoners about what is happening if over a period of time the projects are changing and we are not comparing like with like? I recognise the 2004 bid book did not include VAT, did not include build costs, did not include inflation.

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [14]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    I understand all that, but London can expect no more shocks then?

  • 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) [17]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Can I thank you for that and indeed welcome you to the Assembly for the first time. I am aware of both your and Mr Higgins' industrial backgrounds and I am also aware of what you inherited when you took on the role that you have got now. I am conscious that you are sorting things out rather than ploughing a field from fresh. Last Friday the Mayor in an interview said, 'Crossrail is not like the Olympics; we made a guess about the Olympics and had to work it out afterwards.' How close are you now to getting it...

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [19]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    I understand the commercial sensitivity but you will also be aware that the Aquatics Centre is perhaps foremost in Londoners' minds at the moment. It is the changing budget there which gives people concern. It erodes confidence. We know the overall budget has gone from £2.3 billion to over £9 billion, plus the costs of assembling the land, and Londoners have this lack of confidence in the figures that are being given. When we see that the Aquatics Centre has gone up from £75 million to £150 million, yet the roof size is being reduced from 35,000 square foot to...

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [20]

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