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  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Mr Higgins, you just mentioned the site. You said it was 'highly contaminated'. Those were your words. Now, in marked contrast to your brochure of photographs here, I have got some photographs which actually show the contractors at work. They are digging up, if that is the right phrase, a whole lot of dust which is blowing over the surrounding countryside and the surrounding residential areas. If that site is highly contaminated, don't you think that enormous efforts should be made to damp down the dust and make sure that the dust does not go onto surrounding areas?

  • 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) [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?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [36]

    • Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Alright, are you aware that the River Lee has been tested for radioactivity and in fact I have a Capita Symonds document here which says, `That the levels were slightly higher than expected, not high enough to cause great concern,' and identifies, `Elevated levels of radioactivity above levels considered to be natural background level for the area'.

  • Venues and Infrastructure (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 15 February 2007
    All right, David. One thing that I am a bit concerned about is that, if you look, for example, at the actual stadium and you look at the original quote of £280 million, the Government has now acknowledged it will be higher than that because of the fact that you want a legacy from it; you do not just want a temporary 80,000 seat stadium. Now, the problem is that that tends to indicate to me that no account initially was taken of a possible legacy use, so therefore there is at least another £100 million in costs. Ignore the...

  • Venues and Infrastructure (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 15 February 2007
    If I turn to other areas, you mentioned - Sydney and Athens, and so on. My problem with the situation is, if you look at Athens, and, five years earlier, at a lot of the other venues, and with things like rowing and so on, these things were promised to be legacy. If you look at all the original stuff, it said, `this will be legacy'. But the rowing area now has, sort of, environmentally despoiled a wetlands area. The problem is, I cannot find any situation where I can trust claims. It all seems very pie in the sky...

  • Venues and Infrastructure

    • Reference: 2007/0012-1
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 15 February 2007
    Does the original budget include provision for all venues to be suitable for community usage after the Games?

  • Jack Lemley (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 15 November 2006
    Given the fact that Jack Lemley has actually raised these points, as Sir Roy (McNulty) and you have said during meetings beforehand, there is clearly a problem. I now see somebody senior leaving and, as a former journalist, I read and hear what I would regard as smear stories against Jack Lemley, which are clearly coming from somewhere, either from Government or are any of these stories about him coming from your office? I am not going to repeat them because I believe they are defamatory, but there was an article in Private Eye which is completely, as far as...

  • Jack Lemley (Supplementary) [22]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 15 November 2006
    Sir Roy, you said just now about being on track, but one of the most key elements of being on track is the budget. Mr Higgins, when you came to us in June, I said to you, and I quote, `In the next six to nine months there are likely to be problems. Will we have the same cooperation in flagging up any problems which occur; the possibility of any delays and, most importantly, the cost implications?' When you came to us you talked about everything being very good and I pointed out that I thought it was a honeymoon...