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• Reference: 2004/0282-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

I am frequently asked by constituents what role the sports and athletics facilities at Crystal Palace Park will play in the preparation for the Olympics, can you say how improvements at Crystal Palace will help along our Olympic ambitions?

• Reference: 2004/0283-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

How will the Olympic bid and development of facilities and the event itself be used to promote healthier lifestyles in London and the UK? For example will spectators find it easy to cycle to the Olympic Park?

• Reference: 2004/0284-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

What can Londoners, who strongly support our bid to be an Olympic City, do to help our chances of success?

• Reference: 2004/0285-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

The Atlanta games gave a successful boost to the development of the Internet. Will the games in London promote the development and take up of broadband and wireless IT or other technologies?

• Reference: 2004/0286-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

What plans do you have to relocate businesses that will be displaced by a successful bid and what steps are you taking to minimise blight over premises and land potentially threatened by the bid?

• Reference: 2004/0287-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Are the tidal Bow Back Rivers an asset or liability and would the area's ecology and environment be improved by impounding them, rather in the same way that Cardiff Bay arguably benefited from a barrage?

• Reference: 2004/0289-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

What are your views on the Lib Dem calls for DCMS to down grade the priority of the Olympic bid?

• Reference: 2004/0290-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Do you agree with me that a locally focused training and employment strategy is key to ensuring that local people are able to access the 11,270 jobs created in the Olympic boroughs as part of the Olympic legacy?

• Reference: 2004/0291-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Do you share the aspiration of the bid company and the World Wildlife Fund that London 2012 should be the first "One Planet Olympics" in terms of emissions, waste and sustainable development?

• Reference: 2004/0292-1
• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

London has the potential to be set new standards for the sustainability of the Games. Could you provide an update of what steps are being taken to minimize the environmental impacts? Furthermore, how much of the energy for the games will be provided from renewable sources and, in the longer term, what potential is there for links between facilities for the games and proposed regeneration in the wider area?