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• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

I am interested to hear you say that all of that was agreed in the summer, because on 24 October you told the Cultural Committee here, `If we can get football clubs in there to help mitigate the operating costs, we will certainly be open to that'. Richard Caborn (Minister for Sport), on 21 October, said in the Guardian, `There is very serious negotiation going on between West Ham and the Olympic Authorities about the stadium'. Are you ruling football in or football out?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

You told us, again in an earlier response, that you have been negotiating with community groups and so on. Are you really telling the Assembly and the people of London that a viable future for the stadium as an athletics venue can be provided on the basis of full time use by local community groups, without a substantial subsidy from something like a premier league football club?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

When did those negotiations terminate?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

In summary, is football in or football out?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

You told us in your initial response that the IOC was quite clear what the future use of this stadium was going to be. How can it possibly be that you even entered into any discussions at all with West Ham if the future of the stadium is going to be as an athletics 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: 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: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Thank you. Would you regard the transport plans as being ambitious? In the scheme of the whole project, I am trying to gauge if you feel that transport is more perhaps at risk than other aspects.