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• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I think that has been very positive and I am grateful for those answers. I was surprised to see something in the sports section of the Daily Telegraph the other week which seemed to suggest that the Mayor had undertaken to underwrite losses of some £10 million a year on the Olympic Park after 2012. I was surprised to see that and I wondered if you could shed any light on where that comes from and where we are about the future financing of those issues? All of us obviously want to see the maximum use and the maximum public...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

If I was a cynic I would say that is all good aspirational stuff but a bit light on detail. It could be viewed as aspirational stuff but could I just explore it a bit. If we look at, say, the end use of the venue, and you have a deadline of 2012, and the cost of an end use and the risks associated with maybe time over-runs on an end use, which is better suited for legacy than for the short period of the Games poses a problem for you because it may, in terms of risk management, present...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Can you just help me; Is there any timeframe put on that or not?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

As far as you are aware?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Well, clearly you cannot be absolutely open. I would suggest that you would need to set down deadlines and rules by which other people need to work. If in 2011 they come to you and say, `we need to redesign it as a media centre' that is probably not very helpful.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Can I interrupt you on the basis that I have limited time whereas you have six full years, to the effect that if we take the broadcast centre as an example, then it might have been an earlier aspiration that it be a light industrial use at the end but people are now talking about perhaps higher tech use of media cities, a bit like other major cities in the world. How open are you to changes such as that and how much of a problem for you does that represent?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

So I take it from that, we can do this, we can do that and then you said that we are developing these packs

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Can I move on to another part of this, and I guess we have touched on it a little in the context of food, which is about supplier chains and making sure that the Olympics, as far as possible, encourage local businesses across the whole of London and the South East to compete for work at the Olympics, but also be strengthened by them into the future. Can you tell us a little bit about the work you are doing on that? For example, I have been lobbied - I never thought of these people before - by horticulturists who...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I am not trying to put you on the spot. You are the best witness we have got available.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Very briefly then, a final supplementary. I am a friendly questioner, I think, but I would say your answers are fairly good and aspirational, talking in outline, but a bit thin on detail. When will you be able to tell us a little bit more about some of these specific outputs and how you are going to make some of them leave the strongest possible legacy?