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• Reference: 2009/0115-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

Is it acceptable that around 300 workers on the Olympic Park construction sites are receiving poverty pay?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

Thank you very much. I am very glad to hear that you have made progress on that because it is incredibly important. Congratulations on being on time and on budget. That is pretty amazing and I am sure we are all happy about that. One of the next steps that you could do, in fact, with the Living Wage, is to have accreditation from London Citizens and I gather that organisations like the London Development Agency (LDA) already do have that. I wondered if you would take that next step and get accreditation and then, perhaps, you could also work...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I am more than slightly concerned about the legacy, which you have all mentioned in your presentations. Somehow I am getting the feeling that in the original bid the legacy was a huge part of it, to regenerate a very poor area of London. There was this idea that the Olympics would actually fund the legacy, but it is starting to look (and I am well aware that when we are asking our questions we ask so many questions based on newspaper reports because we do not have the information from you) that it looks more now as if selling...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Mr Higgins, I am grateful for that. Could you address Mr Hockney's point of why we learn about these problems, which Sir Roy (McNulty) has referred to, in effect from The Idaho Statesman. I think that is the point of Mr Hockney's question. Damian Hockney (AM): It is, yes. Brian Coleman (Chairman): I would be grateful if you would address that.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

I would like to go back to the environmental and social issues. I would like to float an idea past you and see your reaction. It is worth spending more money and going over budget to include all these environmental ,sustainability and social issues than it is to come in on budget and reject all of these things as being something we cannot achieve. Remember we are talking about 2012 here. People will have very different expectations of what sustainability is by then.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

In particular could you address the issue of VAT, Mr Higgins?

• 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: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

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

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

I think that brings us to the end of our hour and a half. Mr Higgins, the Assembly is deeply obliged to you for the time you have given this morning. Thank you very much.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

First of all I would like to say from the Green Group, we very much support the Olympics and want it to be a success, and this is the force of our questions. I want to push you again on the whole issue of targets and monitoring, specifically on the legacy aspect of the employment, of the skilling and also of the living wage. There are actually three questions from us' Brian Coleman (Chairman): Let us do one at a time. I am trying to make a point that this is something we care about and something that is going...