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• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Mr Higgins has referred to work looking at contamination and moving spoil from the site. Does it look as though the decontamination cost issues are running to budget or over budget?

• Reference: 2006/0390-1
• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Mr Lemley was particularly concerned about the impact of political disagreements on the future of the main stadium. Is this not a repeat of exactly what went wrong at Wembley? We are particularly referring to the issue of whether it should be an athletics stadium or a premier league football stadium.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Is there an element of you saying, `Well if some of this expansion does not take place, then it is not that critical because there is already a reasonable transport network'? Is that how I take that?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Are you aware that when we had an investigation into the new North London Railway about the expansion, which is planned for 2011, that the North London Borough Transport officers were highly sceptical as to whether the infrastructure could be delivered by 2012.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

You are obviously going to be relying on what we know as Stratford Station at the moment, what appears to be going to be called Stratford Regional Station. One of the things we discovered a few months ago was that the level of crime at that interchange was quite high. What sorts of measures are being put in place to reduce crime so it is not a feature of the Olympic Games?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

What sort of risk assessments will you be putting in these various transport upgrades to try to assess where any weaknesses might occur?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

What sort of risk assessments will you be putting in these various transport upgrades to try to assess where any weaknesses might occur?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

You would not have thought that if you were on the Northern Line this morning.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

I do not share Mr Pope's anxiety yet about the East London Line and North London Line, but I do have an anxiety about Stratford domestic station. I note from your eyebrows that you might have such an anxiety as well. To what extent do the Olympics require its reconstruction, and would you agree that there is, at present, a fairly substantial risk in that we do not understand the full costs of reconstructing the station?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Would you agree then that the risk is that in the worst case one would have to do that with unknown costs associated? Assuming we can get the current owners to rearrange the station, part of the problem is it is a large Victorian structure which needs to have new subways and walkways and connections and escalators and so onput into it. Would you agree that the big risk at present is that the initial estimates for that cost were way below what the current numbers suggested might be costing?