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• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Thank you, Chair. Before I start, I just want to say that I never in my wildest dreams thought we were going to get to this stage. It is so good that we have made such progress, and I just want to say, "congratulations" to the 2012 team and the LDA. You have done so much work so fast and so professionally, and I think Londoners should be really proud of you. You are a class act, and we deserve to win next year. I am really very pleased with what I have heard today. On the legacy, we have...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Right, so all the legacy arrangements will be tidied up by the middle of next year?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

Okay. When the planning committee looked at the plans very early on, there were a number of things that were not tied up. I can hear, from what you have said, there has been a lot of progress on the legacy items. In the context of an Assembly which is largely - we wish it were wholly - but largely supportive of the Olympic bid, can you just say which areas of legacy development have we not made progress on? Where are the gaps, and where are you going to go next to tidy those up?

• 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: 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: 2004/0281-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

When the Planning Scrutiny Committee looked at the plans for the Olympic site earlier this year, it was clear then that the business planning was not yet in place to secure the long term future of the sports facilities which will remain on the site as a legacy of the games. Can you please bring us up to date on what arrangements and plans have now been prepared?

• 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: 2004/0282-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 October 2004

I am frequently asked by constituents what role the sports and athletics facilities at Crystal Palace Park will play in the preparation for the Olympics, can you say how improvements at Crystal Palace will help along our Olympic ambitions?