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• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

You knew about that. I mean, everybody knew about the land.

• 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...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I am sorry, but all that was known and we all knew about the fact that it was also about regeneration. What I am saying is I think the public will feel that they have been taken for a very large ride, particularly when people now say, 'Oh yeah, that was just to win the bid.' It just does not allow the public to feel very confident that they are being treated like grown ups, does it?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

This is a question to David Higgins. There was something you said earlier and I just want to go back to it very briefly. I recognise that you came to this after the initial stage, after we had won the bid but I find it vaguely depressing when you say, as you have done in the past, 'Oh yes, well, the plans for the Aquatics Centre - it was all a bit vague. That was in the bid document in order to help us win the bid.' Don't you think that it actually brings the whole process into disrepute, that...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I have a question pertaining to my area in particular and that is about the canoe venue which is going to be very near Enfield and Waltham Forest in the Lee Valley Regional Park. There have been reports this week that because the original site was contaminated, a new site may be having to be looked at. My question with legacy is this; I know with the original proposals Lee Valley Regional Park were putting in extra money, so there would be a real legacy for the area in terms of children being able to participate and a learning loop...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

We were assured at the time by the Mayor and everybody else that that was a robust costing. So you can imagine how depressed we feel when it turns out not to have been anything of the sort.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

With regard to those extra regeneration costs, can I ask will we be getting shortly some indication of the benefits that they will bring as well?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

My question is about jobs and the benefits of jobs, especially in London. I understand that London has actually been divided into three categories: there is the Olympic boroughs themselves, then the Thames Gateway, and after that there is the rest of London. I understand that they are going to be treated in terms of jobs and employment in that order. I am representing Tottenham, which has double the level of unemployment London average and is next door to the Olympic boroughs. This is a 15 minute train ride and a similar bus ride away. The people of Tottenham, I...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Speaking for all my colleagues, we would like very much to welcome your recognition that target setting can end up being slightly a useless box ticking exercise. We appreciated hearing that from you. On the issue of skilled workforce, obviously we are all concerned to ensure that we get as much up-skilled training as possible to ensure the London workforce can take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the Olympics. One slight query here; is there not also a slight problem that, of course, the building of the Olympic site is also taking place alongside many other major building...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Thank you for that. It is a bit confusing, I think, certainly because there are all sorts of budgets running around as well as your own and the outstanding costs to the LDA. The £2.375 billion figure which was cited as being the `guesstimate' for the infrastructure costs is probably not a firm figure and if anything ' and you obviously cannot commit yourselves to say what it will be ' you are saying it is not a firm figure and costs could go higher than that. Therefore Vincent Cable, who quoted you in that debate in Westminster Hall not...