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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Two questions. Firstly, would you agree that in the light of a major project such as this it would be surprising if it was not the case that there would be some changes in personnel and some clashes of personality along the way?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

): The second question is I fully understand that in the case of a `no fault divorce', which this is presented as, an agreed statement would be issued saying that everyone is walking away happy and there may be differences but we need to put it behind us and move on. However, would you not accept it is a reasonable democratic role for a body such as ourselves to delve into that a little further and see whether there is any voracity in various of the statements made about this, and how would you help us to do that? I...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

My final question is about money. Is there anything we need to know about the financial settlement associated with the departure of Mr Lemley? He was on a contract of something like £250,000 a year, maybe it was more than that.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

If you were to receive a number of written questions from the Assembly asking you to confirm or otherwise some of the more detailed points which seem to be squirming out in the press, would you be happy to receive those? Perhaps happy is not the right word.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Could I ask you one other impossible question to answer then which is when you have finally negotiated with the Treasury your revised budgets for the Olympics, and we agree a sum, will that be a fixed sum which we can be confident to go forward with until 2012?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

So at that time you will be a lot more relaxed about getting into detailed scrutiny with us about individual items within your budget?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

You said you cannot give us detailed costings at all, but can I ask, are the increased costs in relation to the Olympic venues themselves, or added extras to deal with regeneration of the area?

• Reference: 2006/0117-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

What more can you tell us about the changes that are being considered to the bid document, as revealed by the Chair of the IOC Commission at the press conference on 21st April 2006, during the IOC's visit to London?

• Reference: 2006/0118-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

What progress have you made with defining and developing working relationships with local authorities and other public partners. What if any formal structures are you proposing, to ensure that issues, particularly legacy issues, are properly and adequately dealt with without creating bureaucracy and risking possible delay to the Olympic projects?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 10 October 2001

I share a number of the concerns that Tony's outlined and if we can perhaps particularly focus on the website. We're supposed to be, as the GLA family, into open government and the web approach was something that was an ethos that the Mayor and others agree is a great way of people having access. However, if you go onto the LDA website it seems, as Tony says, that you control what comes out in terms of press releases and I haven't yet managed to find the minutes on the website. Maybe I'm just not very good at browsing. But...