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• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Do you understand the concerns raised by the Culture Select Committee in the House of Commons about the need to make sure that the uncertainty over the financing package and the final budget is resolved as soon as possible, precisely so we do not get the distractions that could get in the way of delivering the legacy that Lord Coe was talking about when I listened to him at the French Chamber of Commerce, for example, recently? What can we do, as an Assembly, to support the House of Commons Select Committee in pushing for some finality so we can...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I am sorry to interrupt, Neale, but I do not dispute any of that. Remember, I supported the LDA's intervention on that. What I want to know is what role is it going to play in the Olympics?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Since the LDA owns Crystal Palace, in effect, now, it has taken the lease, is it going to be putting it forward? I would just like a bit more specificity about what role it is going to play. You can make it happen. The LDA can put Crystal Palace forward as a training camp or a preparation camp. Are they going to?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I understand, and you are right to say that we should not be building where there is not long term use, and so on. I totally take that on board. However, there will be a concern, amongst the non-Olympic boroughs - after all there are 27 boroughs whose Council Tax payers are contributing towards the costs - that they are not going to merely have the crumbs from the table. What assurance can you give us on that? Specifically, what are the plans for the use of the facilities at Crystal Palace that Neale Coleman referred to?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Mr Mayor, generally, and when you have been absent for various occasions, is it correct that you have delegated your functions ' with one or two rare exceptions ' to the Chief of Staff normally, or occasionally other of your policy directors?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Why is it that you told the Assembly at the last MQT that, `Sometimes things go out from this building that I completely disagree with'? Surely there must have been a failure on the part of your advisers if that happens?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

I notice you said that some things would have had a `strongly different tone'. Do all the mayoral advisers report directly to you or to the Chief of Staff (Simon Fletcher)?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Perhaps the advisers present could tell us the system that there is whereby they report to you and how they act when they are acting on your behalf? How do they make sure there is an audit trail to ensure they are acting in accordance with your wishes and any changes are spot checked?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Of course, as you have already indicated, from a day-to-day point of view, your senior advisers ' I used that term generically ' have authority to speak and act on your behalf.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Would you be prepared to make public the CVs of all the officers that you have appointed under section 67 of the Act?