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• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I was struck by the fact that so much legacy is going to be wrapped around Sport England and the role they are going to play in the sporting legacy. Of course, I suspect there is a problem here, is there not, because of the fact that they are, to a large extent, dependent on Lottery funding. It would seem that Lottery funding is now being very stretched indeed, given that it looks like the Lottery is going to be involved in actually bailing out large overspends should they happen. How concerned are you that Sport England is going to...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I think there are concerns here that everyone talks grandly about legacy, but actually so much of it is dependent on all the ducks being in a row, and I think perhaps that we are concerned that its intentions will not necessarily guarantee delivery. Lord Coe, I know everybody in West London is very excited that you have agreed to come to talk to the West London Alliance in May, about what West Londoners might be able to expect in terms of legacy from the Games, amongst other things. Perhaps I am being a little early in this, but I...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Right, but can I just pick up on that?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Right. You say 24 businesses have been settled successfully.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Can I just put it to you that I do think that you are reneging on your duty as the man who is meant to lead for London's interest. It is absolutely clear that, if there had been a review, it is not a matter of you rolling over. You could have used the opportunity, could you not, to press for some guarantees? You said yourself that you do not think Londoners should pay a penny more than they are already committed to ' the £625 million. The fact is, however, that this Memorandum of Understanding hangs over us like...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Let us stick with the point, shall we?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Personal abuse tends to suggest I am winning the argument, by the way. I was always taught that. I will put it to you one more time: is it not a good opportunity for you to show how you can flex your muscles as Mayor of London, and at the very least press for some kind of guarantee that whatever the overspend is ' and I am hoping it is not going to be great; let us hope it is the most efficiently-delivered bid of all ' that would be fantastic ' but let us also have a belt and...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Why are you not using the review to do that?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

£625 million overall ' yes, exactly.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

It says that Londoners and the lottery will split any over-costs between them, so that is how you are happy to leave it, are you, Mayor?