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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Right. But is there a risk then that if we are really going to get the things that local communities aspire to have, we are going to have to look for additional funding from additional places to fund those things? So, if we want the Olympic Boulevard to happen, so that it is a major thoroughfare of London connecting a new business district at Stratford with the City of London , that will have to be funded from elsewhere; TfL or someone else?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I want to go back to jobs and I want to talk about the jobs that are your responsibility. Can you confirm for us the total amount of jobs projected? I was present at a recent presentation by your excellent Head of HR which really electrified the room, local communities, and put meat around the skeleton of the plans. I would like you to confirm with us here today the absolute numbers that you are expecting to employ. I also understand that you have employed - is it your first 500 or 5,000 people? I saw something printed this week...

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

What about the International Broadcast Centre and the Media and Press Centre? You are going to build a huge facility there. What happens when the circus has moved on, what are you going to do with it?

• Reference: 2007/0023-1
• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Where do you anticipate the most likely pressures will occur that could result in having to use the contingency fund?

• Reference: 2007/0024-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Planned expenditure on the park and venues has risen from £2.4bn to £3.1bn in the last two years. What long-term benefits will Londoners see as a result of this extra money?

• Reference: 2007/0025-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Planned expenditure on infrastructure and regeneration has gone up by 70%. What specific improvements will the people of East London see as a result of the extra money, and how much is not directly required for the Games?

• 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?

• Reference: 2007/0022-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Is the news that the ODA have reduced the area which will house the Olympic Velopark in legacy mode from the originally agreed 34 hectares to just 7 hectares just the start of things to come? How much more scaling down of legacy facilities do you anticipate might take place if the ODA faces additional budget deficits, and the need to increase revenues from land sales?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Thank you. My last question is about the budget. I understand that the budget has not been finalised, but you should surely realise that the reason we have so much concern around here is because we have not got any information. The job we are being paid to do is to monitor the delivery of the Games. We cannot actually monitor it if we do not have the budget, because we do not know whether you are going above it or below it. Now you have said that the budget that you have asked for is significantly higher than the...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

I would like to know what plans are in place to make sure that the same mistakes do not happen again when there is a new Chairman appointed. I think it is very clear, certainly to me, that Mr Lemley has done much more damage to his own reputation by his extraordinary behaviour since he left, than could ever have been done by the involvement with the Games. I wanted to know how it was going to be made sure that whoever is appointed next time, and whoever is going to appoint them - presumably the Mayor and the Secretary...