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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?

  • Venues and Infrastructure (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 15 February 2007
    All right, David. One thing that I am a bit concerned about is that, if you look, for example, at the actual stadium and you look at the original quote of £280 million, the Government has now acknowledged it will be higher than that because of the fact that you want a legacy from it; you do not just want a temporary 80,000 seat stadium. Now, the problem is that that tends to indicate to me that no account initially was taken of a possible legacy use, so therefore there is at least another £100 million in costs. Ignore the...

  • Venues and Infrastructure (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 15 February 2007
    If I turn to other areas, you mentioned - Sydney and Athens, and so on. My problem with the situation is, if you look at Athens, and, five years earlier, at a lot of the other venues, and with things like rowing and so on, these things were promised to be legacy. If you look at all the original stuff, it said, `this will be legacy'. But the rowing area now has, sort of, environmentally despoiled a wetlands area. The problem is, I cannot find any situation where I can trust claims. It all seems very pie in the sky...

  • Venues and Infrastructure

    • Reference: 2007/0012-1
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 15 February 2007
    Does the original budget include provision for all venues to be suitable for community usage after the Games?