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• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Finally, given that you have milestones and key milestones and a set date to achieve it, would it not have been better to have set up bonus payments rather than contingency sums, given that is going to be the name of the game - getting to key stages at key times at critical points? Clearly we would rather be giving them money for achieving that, rather than spending their time making those claims, which invariably half the building trade does.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Sir Roy, if we accept the Government figures as the upper limits to the expenditure on the Olympics, I think the key thing is the management of the contingencies. I am worried that we find ourselves in contracts with contractors who then spend most of their time making claims for the contingencies. They are very generous; about 60% of the build costs. I have certainly had that experience of managing projects myself. What do you have lined up in the procurement arrangements with contractors which make sure they focus and achieve the milestones, rather than putting in the estimators to...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

You have mentioned the Cabinet Committees that are keeping an eye on this. Surely the building contract and the legality of that will supersede anything that they can decide about which contingency sums can be drawn from or not.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Thank you, Chair, and in some ways Richard's (Barnes) question has stolen my thunder, and the exchanges just now, but I just want to really relay as well that I think, actually, an important factor in countering the terrorist threat to London is community relations, and that we will always have to be on top of that, whatever the state of the actual threat itself. I do welcome the fact that we have moved away from Sir John Stevens's (former MPS Commissioner) suggestion that it is almost inevitable, to suggesting that attempts are inevitable, but not necessarily successful ones. What...

• Reference: 2005/0170-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

What measures are you taking to protect women and girls who are forced into the sex trade in this city?