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• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Can I rephrase the question, in that case? Will you, as Chief Executive of the ODA, ensure that targets are put in place, that those targets are strictly monitored, and that we as an Assembly are given the figures as to whether or not you are keeping up with the targets at particular milestones?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Thank you. My final question is about delivery. A lot of the evidence we have got at scrutiny sessions here is that the LDA and the Learning and Skills Council as being very good at consulting and planning, but not so good on delivery. It is a plea to you to make sure that whoever you put ' whatever group you put together, make sure that you have got implementers rather than planners on that group. Otherwise it will just be talk for the sake of talk.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

I understand the point you made about the budget, and how it is a living, breathing, ongoing thing, however you must be working to some figure at the moment? Is that as it was in the Bid Book ' that was the three ' as you have now redefined it, so £3 billion - or has that increased as a result of the KPMG re-costings?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Dee Doocey (AM): I understand all that. Is it the case at this moment that you think additional funding is required, or are you content, at this moment, because the detailed work has not been done, that the situation is containable within the original budget?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

I understand all that, but is that the budget you are working to?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

When do you think that figure will be available to be released to us?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

But there is no funding assumed in the budget for those facilities? If they are given away they will be given away rather than sold.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

So by the end of the year?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

I understand that. I have just got one other question, which is specific. According the bid book, there were six arenas that were going to be deconstructed and moved to other locations. Does the budget assume that there is an income stream from those? I know that when it goes to other parts of the UK, that that particular authority is responsible for the ongoing costs, but what about the deconstruction costs? Is there an assumption that these arenas are going to be sold, or is a crane just going to come in and pick up some kind of arena...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

But there is no funding assumed in the budget for those facilities? If they are given away they will be given away rather than sold.