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• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I must ask you about East Marsh. I cannot meet you without asking this question. Sally Hamwee (Chair): If it is about legacy. Jennette Arnold (AM): It is about legacy. Can you, once again, assure the people of Hackney that East Marsh will be restored to parkland after the Olympic Games? Are you able to give a timescale for this and for the further improvements that have been promised, specifically, a land bridge, improved football facilities, and replacement land for the Arena Fields?

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

): I am extremely sorry, Mr Mayor, for you to suggest that people who are fighting for their own interests are behaving politically. They are behaving sensibly, in the way I suspect that you would have done, if you were in that position. I have in front of me a letter from the LDA, dated 2 September, on this question of professional costs which are likely to be incurred with regard to business relocation. This letter tells me that you actually estimate that you will be spending £5 million on professional fees relating to businesses' location. As a matter of...

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

When you say, `in exactly the same way,' the appeal initially, therefore, from a decision of the ODA, will go to the inspector and then to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). Is that how it will work?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Just on that point about the sustainability issues within the procurement document: will contracts be independently appraised before they are let, say, by the London Sustainable Development Commission (LSDC) or something like that?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Just on this code, the very welcome offer: does it currently cover sustainable development issues and the other sorts of issues around wages, labour rights, and so forth?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

This sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare to me. How are people who are endeavouring to run a business, make a small profit, and pay their mortgage going to be expected to wade through all these committee meetings, board meetings, sustainable-development-checking processes? Mayor, you will have to ask them to put off the Olympics until 2016 at this rate.

• Reference: 2005/0270-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Would you support the idea of publicising a list of key promises made on the Olympics to help local people (and others) keep a track of progress on the delivery of these promises?

• Reference: 2005/0271-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

What formal structures are being put in place to ensure that there is meaningful consultation with local people throughout the construction and running of the Games and in the legacy phase? For example, will local people be consulted on the siting of schools, facilities etc in the legacy area?

• Reference: 2005/0272-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

What weight will environmental criteria be given within the best value assessment in the tendering process, to ensure inclusion of environment obligations in the final contracts?

• Reference: 2005/0273-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Non-LOCOG capital investment is estimated at $15.8 bn. Can you provide details of how this figure will be met?