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• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

It is not going to deliver unless specific projects have specific targets. You can have a high-flying overall statement, but unless specific projects deliver'

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Have specific targets been set that apply to specific projects or to the Games as a whole?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Will all new facilities be powered only from renewables?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

The first is that I am a great fan and supporter of the Olympic bid, as I hope you know, not least because it benefits my constituents enormously. One of the assurances that I think some people in east London, where there is some residual cynicism about the bid, would like is assurances about the ways in which you are going to link the bid into local contracting, local recruitment, training of local people, and relationships with local schools, so that it will be a bid that strengthens the area. There is a history of colonial intervention in east London...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

I know that quite a few detailed assurances and commitments have been made in this area already, but I think experience teaches us that you have to tell people again and again, and our job is to examine those proposals again. Are you happy after this meeting to make another written representation, to us, if you like, which could be used in communications in east London and which will clarify points about training; local contracts; the fact that you are going to get local firms, rather than Burger King or whoever, into the area; the fact that contractors will be...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

This is very important also to Athens, which is about overspends and who will meet the bill, because my sense - and this is a recurrent theme through today's questions - is a concern amongst some party groups and amongst Londoners, as well, that there is a potential outcome where there is an overspend which comes back to haunt us, like the Montreal Olympic Games of 1976, year, after year, after year. You have gone some way to answering this today, but again, it would be very helpful for us if there were a very clear, unequivocal statement coming out...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Thank you very much. I am going to ask this question about hidden cost and also a capacity issue for the whole of London, not just east London. I wonder whether, in fact, you have been in discussion with London NHS as to capacity, and how it could bear an influx of a huge number of people. There will be people who will be ill; there will be people who will have accidents. Now, London's hospitals carry a very, very high bed occupancy, with hardly any spare room. Are you discussing this problem with London NHS?

• Reference: 2004/0298-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Will a London Olympics be a zero waste/zero net carbon event?

• Reference: 2004/0274-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

What support has London's business community given to the bid?

• Reference: 2004/0286-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

What plans do you have to relocate businesses that will be displaced by a successful bid and what steps are you taking to minimise blight over premises and land potentially threatened by the bid?