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  • Risks (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 21 October 2009
    Thank you, Chair. I would have thought one of the greatest risks that you actually run is the security of the site during build and, indeed, during the Games itself. Are you content that the structure, where you have got Ian Johnson now heading security, I assume within the Park? I am not sure if he has got responsibility for all the 134 sites plus the free to view Games. You have got him there. You have got the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) through Chris Allison [Assistant Commissioner, Central Operations, Metropolitan Police Service] and the public order with the responsibility...

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    On Tuesday at his press conference the Mayor said, 'The Aquatics Centre will be built on time and to budget.' Now, we are all aware that two days late is not good enough. Which budget do you think he is talking about?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Can I thank you for that and indeed welcome you to the Assembly for the first time. I am aware of both your and Mr Higgins' industrial backgrounds and I am also aware of what you inherited when you took on the role that you have got now. I am conscious that you are sorting things out rather than ploughing a field from fresh. Last Friday the Mayor in an interview said, 'Crossrail is not like the Olympics; we made a guess about the Olympics and had to work it out afterwards.' How close are you now to getting it...

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [19]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    I understand the commercial sensitivity but you will also be aware that the Aquatics Centre is perhaps foremost in Londoners' minds at the moment. It is the changing budget there which gives people concern. It erodes confidence. We know the overall budget has gone from £2.3 billion to over £9 billion, plus the costs of assembling the land, and Londoners have this lack of confidence in the figures that are being given. When we see that the Aquatics Centre has gone up from £75 million to £150 million, yet the roof size is being reduced from 35,000 square foot to...

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [42]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Richard Barnes (AM): That is a bit strange then because Murziline Parchment and her researcher, Christopher Fleming, went to New York to the New York City Cities Conference on 17 January, and the International Relations Unit prepared a briefing note for her which says -,`Tokyo has been a partner city for some time, but the cities are yet to work together on any projects' and that was January 2006 the agreement was reached. `The Governor of Tokyo' - and I quote directly from the briefing note - `Shiin Taro Ishihara is very right wing. Ken and he have met and...

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [50]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    So he was not in New York, and he has not met Mayor Bloomberg?

  • Environmental Impact (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    I just wondered, do you need to do all this travelling for Green issues? We were told that, for example, that Woking was a leading place to go to if you wanted to look at decentralised power generation and, indeed, we employ someone from there to advise us. Would it not be better if you were to seek out examples that were nearer to home and, if necessary, where other world cities have done good jobs, perhaps you seek to bring some of their people over here and employ them in the way that you did with Bob Kiley [former...

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Can you help me? What is a partnership agreement, which I understand London has entered into with a number of cities?

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    That was a very brief meeting with Tokyo. If you actually look at the Mayor's report, it is overwhelmingly left wing communist party members that he has met.

  • Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Richard Barnes
    • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
    Havana, Caracas, Beijing, Moscow.