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• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Susan Hall AM: Thank you. I will be very brief. Lyn, at the December [2022] Budget and Performance [Committee] meeting, I asked you whether you would ask the Mayor to get more involved in the search for a Stadium sponsor. What progress have you made on that?

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 16 March 2023

Keith Prince AM: A couple of things to start with, Lord Hendy. It is good to see you again. You were saying that you were astonished earlier. Do you honestly believe that such prime real estate where the [Olympic] Games were held would remain fallow even now? If we look around where we are here, if we look at Docklands, Canary Wharf, none of those had the Olympic Games, from memory, but they have all been very successfully developed out.

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Susan Hall AM: Thank you. May I say first of all, Sir Mark, thank you for your robust answers to Assembly Member Russell. There is no doubt that politicians do mean well, but it is absolutely vital that we look at things in the round. I really applaud your robust answers. To be fair, Sir Steve House had started to row back, and I am pleased to see that you are saying what you are because figures on both sides of an argument need to be looked at. Thank you for that; I was thrilled to hear that. Mr Mayor...

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Keith Prince AM: Good morning, Mr Mayor. Did I hear you correctly when you said that knife crime was down since 2016? Was that the year you used?

• Question by: Susan Hall
• Meeting date: 01 December 2022

Susan Hall AM: T hank you. Mr Mayor, I do not know what is happening. We have been agreeing an awful lot today, which is somewhat unusual; however, I want to bring your attention to something. All of us agree that our police officers are invaluable, as are firefighters, ambulance drivers and so on. Many of them, because of the cost of housing in London, have to come in from outside. Consequently, quite naturally, the Metropolitan Police Federation is incensed that you are going to expand the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) because it would mean that so many officers, who...

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Keith Prince AM: Thank you. Lyn, you just mentioned about [the Olympic [London] stadium’s] capacity, and I believe that currently the capacity is agreed around about 60,000.

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Keith Prince AM: Thank you. Just going back to the MLB, you said that you washed your face with that one. It made a slight profit, I believe you said.

• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 06 September 2018

Keith Prince AM: First of all, you were answering Assembly Member Duvall’s question about costs and so on and you said there were four things. The first was seat moves, the second was high operating costs and the third was the lack of commercialisation but I think he interrupted before you got to the fourth on that list, unless I ‑‑