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• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

But to paraphrase what you said, Paul, it is suggested to me that we will not see any extra facilities, as a result of having training facilities here. All we will see is maybe some improvements to existing facilities.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Can I turn to Lord Coe and thank him also for the work that he has done in West London, and visiting the school where I am a governor, the Harefield Academy. Clearly, that is a sports academy which is very much tied into this spirit and ethos of what we want to achieve through the Olympic Games. Are you picking up that same spirit and ethos across London? Are schools getting tied in as strongly as they should, because quite honestly the sporting legacy is those athletes that we know now that will probably be competing in 2012, and...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Lord Coe, you have gone on record as saying that the Olympics is not about budgets and additional infrastructure, it is about ambition and legacy. How is the current row over the budget for the main Olympic Stadium actually having an effect on the legacy, for example, for the main Olympic Stadium?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Well, the report suggests that the requirement for legacy, ie reducing the capacity of the stadium, is driving the increasing costs. And I think that is a terribly important issue --

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Reports are saying that the main contractor is coming back and saying that the cost of the Olympic Stadium has doubled. Can you confirm that?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

One of the areas, of course, that you refer to, and I think we can build on, is providing training facilities for teams coming to the Olympics. They need first rate facilities, but could be built all over London and therefore be a lasting legacy for Londoners, be they from the west or east, north or south, to participate in sport later. Can you give us a guarantee about what the plan is for rolling that out?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

I am moving outside of the five Olympic boroughs to the whole of the rest of London, to look at what the sporting legacy can be for the rest of London.