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Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [25]
- Question by: Tony Arbour
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
So you are telling the Assembly that, simply based on the information that you held in your records, on the assumption that all of your records were complete, you were able to come to a conclusion with regard to what Brenda Stern said, that as far as you were concerned there is no case to answer? Would not the obvious thing for you to have done have been to go to the source of the allegations? Is that not an elementary thing to do? Why did you limit your investigation just to the material which you say that you hold?
Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [37]
- Question by: Bob Blackman
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
So are those the records that the LDA has of email traffic and other aspects?
London Development Agency Funding of Organisations (Supplementary) [10]
- Question by: Tony Arbour
- Meeting date: 16 January 2008
So you are telling the Assembly that, simply based on the information that you held in your records, on the assumption that all of your records were complete, you were able to come to a conclusion with regard to what Brenda Stern said, that as far as you were concerned there is no case to answer? Would not the obvious thing for you to have done have been to go to the source of the allegations? Is that not an elementary thing to do? Why did you limit your investigation just to the material which you say that you hold?
Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [3]
- Question by: Bob Neill
- Meeting date: 25 April 2007
Does that include taking advice from the people on Lord James of Blackheath's team who had to bail out some of the consequences of the Dome? The police were involved in that.
Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [5]
- Question by: Bob Neill
- Meeting date: 25 April 2007
The trouble that I have is that the more one departs from basic commercial practice, when we fall into public sector practice, the greater the risk, history tells us, of budget overruns.
Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [7]
- Question by: Bob Neill
- Meeting date: 25 April 2007
Can I come, Sir Roy, back to a point that Mr Higgins made in relation to our earlier discussions? I am concerned about the extent to which bottom up budgeting is really being regarded as being acceptable at all. Would you not accept that one of the lessons I think that we have learned from projects like the Dome and other public sector projects is that, by and large, you should start from the revenue generation figure, and be very reluctant about bottom up budgeting, because that is where you get `creep'? If you have the revenue regeneration figure as...
Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [8]
- Question by: Richard Barnes
- Meeting date: 25 April 2007
How great is the budget for this security process, during the build phase of the building site?
Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [9]
- Question by: Bob Neill
- Meeting date: 25 April 2007
): I am grateful for that. When we looked at past history, things like Wembley and the Dome, one thing which tended to cause further increases in budgets was, regrettably, elements of fraud, sometimes sub-contractor fraud, and a lack of control over sub-contractor costs. What lessons have we learnt? What systems are being put in place to bear down upon that in a way which did not happen, perhaps, in some of those other projects?
Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [10]
- Question by: Richard Barnes
- Meeting date: 25 April 2007
So, at this moment, the total budgeting costs for security are approximately £1.4 billion then, if one conflates the two figures?
Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [11]
- Question by: Richard Barnes
- Meeting date: 25 April 2007
Yes, but on top of that is the £600 million for the Metropolitan Police?