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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

Do you know how many, if any, privately-sponsored Live sites there will be in London in addition to ones that you are planning to have?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

So why have you set such a low limit? Why not 25% or 30%?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Finally, what are you going to do about the still considerable number of empty properties that are not brought onto the housing market at all?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

The key is that when those properties come available, there is a queue a mile long to acquire them. So, there is clearly a need for more of those types of properties.

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Two quick areas I would just like to raise: how are you going to address the need for new affordable housing for families when we have already got a surplus of one bedroom properties at affordable level, and a large element of the developments that have taken place have been two bedroom properties? In actual fact the demand now in London is very much for family housing, both for affordable housing for rent but also housing that can be bought by families.

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Why then has the Mayor opposed, for example, what Wandsworth has been doing to bring back empty homes into the housing market?

• Reference: 2007/0016-1
• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

There is no evidence from previous Games that the event led to any sustained increase in sports participation. Why should London's Games be different?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

I am very grateful for your answer, which I will take not only as an answer but also as a very clear statement of the challenges of getting this right. In the interests of getting to other questions on the agenda, I think we could rest it there, with the promise from you that in the New Year, there will be some clarity about how we are taking this forward, which we can maybe examine again.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

To cut this down to a more blunt political point then, there is a risk in the Olympics that if the relationship with the LSCs is not amended or revised or improved in a way that the Mayor is suggesting it should be, then the GLA's view is there is a risk to the Olympics and the delivery of training as part of that?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

That clearly contradicts with what the Mayor has had to say. The reality is that the costs are going up beyond those expected and the Mayor has quite openly said to us, on the record, that it is basically a seven-year bridging loan that we are having here and we are acquiring additional property in order to fund the increased costs. Is it not a fact here that you are becoming a property speculator in order to fund the Games?