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• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

Mr Coleman, you touched on it just at the end of your answer to Tony Arbour's question about the bulk purchasing power. Can we be assured that the prices in the Look Book will be no more expensive because we don't have a brilliant track record of monopoly suppliers giving best value to purchasers? Can we ensure we fully utilise our joint purchasing power to ensure those prices are not going to be any higher than would be normally available on the commercial market?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

Could I take you back to the discussion about public services and the cost of laying on various extra public services. I accept the figures that we have been given about some of the host boroughs close to the Olympic Park - and obviously there are other colleagues that can talk about them - but there are several that do concern me. I gather that the original estimate put in by the boroughs was £63.5 million and that has been reduced by the GLA and the Government to £21 million, which is a pretty considerable reduction. Now, as I understand...