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• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Just a quick follow up. I am hoping you are getting the feeling from round here that all of us are looking for a community that we can be proud of in years to come and I think that is something that we would like to see; the whole design and thought looked at from that sense of view. I am personally quite pleased we are not putting up more high rise blocks. You talked about the fact that you had reduced the number. Does that mean that is going to change the number of people in each room or...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Like yourself I was there as a spectator but I did not have any privilege access like yourselves to what was happening during that whole month of festivities. There were one or two things I picked up which I think are pertinent. The first is on the transport. It was not just the investment they made but they also dropped prices, quite considerably, so most people used it quite happily. A similar thing happened in Athens. They said afterwards they managed to move the modal shift by 10% from private vehicles to public transport. I do not know if we...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Can we get the parameters very clear then. You are responsible for the build phase of the Olympic Site and the security of that build phase. You will then hand over to LOCOG who assume responsibility for the buildings and it is their responsibility for security of the delivery of the Paralympic and Olympic Games. Are you responsible for the security at Broxbourne for the waterway and at Weymouth? At what point do you hand over responsibility for the build site because I understand there are test operations that need to occur for a period of up to a year...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Of course about 95% of the transport developments will be legacy so I think that will be very much welcomed by Londoners and certainly East Londoners. Of course we have had a time of turmoil and sometimes delay in reviews at City Hall since the election and I just wondered are there any transport development projects which have been caught up in the Mayor's transport review and delayed which are of significance to the Olympic transport plan?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Gentlemen, in the current climate and with you being questioned so closely by everybody about costings, you must regret that remark by the previous Mayor about the costings for the bid being worked out on the back of an envelope? That is a question. You must regret it must you not, gentlemen? Does it make your job rather difficult?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

You have already said that you would consider any form of funding. Have you considered a Sharia bond from the Islamic banks?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

First of all can I congratulate you on the work you have done so far. I think you have done a spectacular job and long may it continue. I do not underestimate how very difficult it has been to get to this stage. I think it is very good and I am sure we are all impressed. My question is, in a worst case scenario how much of the contingency are you likely to have to use in order to rescue the financing of the Village and the Media Centre?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

John, are we facing the prospect that the Olympic Village might be completely funded by taxpayers?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Thank you for a very well presented report. I am a little concerned with the costing, whichever proportion is given over to the taxpayer of London and the UK Government tax collection from the people. You mentioned the credit crunch. This morning 400 points was taken off the Financial Times Index within the first hour of opening and that probably will not change for the foreseeable future. I come back to the aspect of the Stadium first. Mayor Boris has made it quite clear that the £500 million Stadium will, at the end of the Games, go back to 25,000...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

On the funding of the Olympic Village, you have said it is extremely unlikely that there will be a scenario where 100% will be coming from public funds through contingency, but what proportion are you looking at now in terms of the mix of different sources of funding for the Olympic Village?