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  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    Sir Roy, how much of the £500 million construction contingency has so far been earmarked to be spent? There has been a lot of talk about this and a lot of rumours in the industry.
  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    My only point really on this is that it is in that area where costs can so easily run away. In the industry, there are rumours; you speak to any of the major contractors or the journalists in the area, and they will tell you that £350 million of the £500 million has so far been earmarked, and that insiders within the ODA have told them this.
  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    So it will not go to CLM (CH2M Hill International, Laing O'Rourke, Mace)? They will not be the people who will do it?
  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    The fact that so few people appear to have tendered for the Aquatic Centre does that not concern you in terms of possibilities?
  • Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [14]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    So if that £500 million contingency can last up to the end of next year, then how much more of the overall contingency budget that the Government has aside, which has been the cause of so much controversy, do you think you will need?
  • Potential for Further Budget Increases

    • Reference: 2007/0026-1
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
    Can you guarantee that there will be no further increase in the ODA budget announced by Tessa Jowell in March?
  • Use of Statistics (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 November 2006
    The problem is when the Chair of the Federation is saying what he says, which is so seriously strong when he says that it is being reported it is far below what really happens, underplayed for political reasons, you can play with statistics in that sense and the public does not feel that we have gotten on top of it. I think that independent statistics surely are the answer.
  • Use of Statistics

    • Reference: 2006/0382-1
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 08 November 2006
    Statistics appear to show a drop in crime, but do you have any reservations about the statistics?
  • In-House Magazine - "The sharp End"

    • Reference: 2005/0168-1
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 15 June 2005
    No doubt you are aware of the complaints about the Met's new in-house magazine, 'The Sharp End'. It has been described by the Metropolitan Police Federation as patronising, insulting and a huge waste of money. Have you read it, and if so, do you agree?