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

It is just a quick one. I understand that the delay at Hog Hill has been caused by you finding a particular wildlife there that needs to be preserved, and there has been six months delay to date. Can you guarantee us that it will not be a year's delay or 18 months' delay? Where are we with that?

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

So it has been sorted now and it will be finished by September? That is what you are saying?

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

So the newts will be rehoused?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So you are guaranteeing that we are seeing no reduction whatsoever in the amount of public open space?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So the other pieces of public open space which are not contained in this application will be in other applications or have been agreed already?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Thank you. David [Higgins] mentioned the size of the Park earlier, but the new planning application does reduce the amount of open space in the Park by the equivalent of 34 football pitches, from 127 hectares to 109 hectares. The application is smaller than the previous one. We are getting a smaller park are we not?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

OK, thanks. If I can briefly move on now to sustainability standards? Last month the Mayor told us that now the budget had been agreed, we can expect improvements in the environmental standards for the Olympics. What changes will be made now that you have the money in the budget?

• 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...

• 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?