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• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

Mr Coleman and Mr Fihosy, you have both touched on a number of programmes that will be happening next year. Clearly there is the Olympics itself on a number of sites in and around London. There is your own programme of welcoming people and programmes that you know of at your Live sites. There are events that local authorities are putting on. There are events which local authorities are facilitating and by that I think of Jamaica celebrating 50 years of independence, Trinidad and Tobago also wanting to celebrate 50 years of independence, Brazil wishing to celebrate the fact of...

• 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...

• 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?

• 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...

• 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...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Can I ask Mr Coleman to actually clarify what he said about the swimming pool for Hillingdon? And I am very pleased that both parts of my constituency have been mentioned already today.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

This sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare to me. How are people who are endeavouring to run a business, make a small profit, and pay their mortgage going to be expected to wade through all these committee meetings, board meetings, sustainable-development-checking processes? Mayor, you will have to ask them to put off the Olympics until 2016 at this rate.

• Reference: 2002/0332-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

What meetings have you had with the Startegic Health Authorities, officers or members, to discuss the impact upon the health of Londoners of the quality of their housing? .

• Reference: 2002/0333-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

What do you regard as the main health issues facing London over the next 10 years? What value is the Mayor adding to solving these problems? .

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Can I ask if you believe you have advanced the health of London since you've been there, or is the department an expensive waste of time?