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• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Thank you very much for that. I was deeply sorry to hear you repeat in your answer two questions ago to say that those people who will persist with CPOs will be politically motivated. I have no idea what `politically motivated' means in this context, and I would very much like an explanation from you on that. In relation to your brief and succinct answer to the principal question, does that mean that if the ODA come forward with a plan, a proposal ' and you have told us how much you are going to be supportive of the ODA...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I understand that, but it is not inconceivable that something which is required for the Olympics that the ODA want will, in fact, be incompatible with the London Plan. Under those circumstances ' and you have already told me that the London Plan will have primacy ' will you call in something which the ODA proposes which is against the policies that you have set out in your London Plan?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I was interested to hear you say that should the overrun exist or be bigger than you expect, you will go to Government and ask for a refund of taxes which they have levied on the Games and income generated by the Games. Why do you not now join our campaign to see that the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Gordon Brown) remits the VAT which is going to be levied on the lottery? That would be a very substantial sum of money up front, which will show the strength of the Government's contribution to funding the Olympics. You have already...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How will the OTA be made up? Who will appoint the members?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

What you are saying, though ' and I can understand the imperatives ' is basically that the transport needs of the Olympics, those couple of weeks, are going to be paramount over the transport needs of Londoners, as interpreted by TfL. How will a dispute of that sort be resolved?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Then there will not be another road grab beyond the one that is currently in progress?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

What if the OTA has a dispute with the boroughs and the roads that they operate? Who resolves that problem, then?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Just so we can understand what are the implications of that, you talk about developing an Olympic road network. Is that just going to be roads which are currently part of the TfL strategic road network, or do you see that network including a lot more borough roads and being a lot wider?

• Reference: 2005/0293-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How much land in the Lower Lea Valley is contaminated?

• Reference: 2005/0294-1
• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

What is the nature of that contamination?