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• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

There has to be something ready, and you must engage with Londoners.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Fine, but just can you please tell us about it, because if I do not know, what chance is there that local builders know? Can I just make one final point: speed is of the essence. The Construction Industry Training Board estimate that 88,000 recruits are needed over the next five years ' not in 10 years' time, but over the next five years. You need to get your act together, and you need to get your act together now. Bob Blackman (AM): To build on those questions: the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had a key concern, which was the...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I am sure you could.

• Reference: 2005/0310-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Please can you supply copies of the detailed timelines that according to the bid document ''have been subjected to contingency and risk planning''?

• Reference: 2005/0312-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How do you anticipate using the new Mayoral Olympics powers proposed in the London Olympics Bill?

• Reference: 2005/0313-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

The principal, major transport improvements expected before 2012 include: the completion of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link to St Pancras; north and south extensions and upgrades to the East London Line; longer trains, and extensions to the Docklands Light Railway; significant improvements to the transport hubs at Kings Cross/St Pancras and Stratford and the building of the West London tram. The successful bid also means that capacity on the North London Line will be greatly improved. Can you confirm that all these things will occur before 2012?

• Reference: 2005/0314-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Tessa Jowell has conceded that the security bill is likely to increase. Who will pay for it?

• Reference: 2005/0316-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

The Big Lottery Fund, which distributes lottery money, has predicted that grants to causes such as health, education, environmental and volunteer programmes could be reduced by £68m over the next four years, as lottery players switch to the heavily marketed Olympic-themed game. Could this Olympic lottery simply divert monies from other causes - including local sporting developments of which much is made in current lottery propaganda?

• Reference: 2005/0317-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Building Design was obliged to obtain information about project funding under Freedom of Information legislation. We too are obliged to resort to FoI on the Olympic opinion polling. We are still chasing the information which was denied to us on grounds that giving it to us would affect public perception of opinion polling. Appreciating that the London Assembly has no role in the Olympic Games and is not even mentioned in the London Olympics Bill, can the Mayor explain who is to have the job of even the most rudeimentary form of scrutiny, looking after London's interests and avoiding the...

• Reference: 2005/0318-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

In Singapore, in the final stages of the bidding process, Sebastian Coe promised immediate gains for sport in the UK if London were to be successful. Can these now be quantified?