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• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2012

Thank you. I wanted to ask you particularly about the sporting legacy and particularly school children. As you said, that is the one thing that you perhaps would have done differently with

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

London's presentation in Singapore was centred around the inspiration of today's children and future children to take up sport, pass the baton on to the next generation and I think you said London's bid stood out because of this. You talked earlier about you, in effect, having to do the knitting together. It is fine to talk about it but how do you actually do that?

• 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: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

You said there were about 70,000 volunteers needed. Do you have any idea at the moment about how many of them have come from London and how many from outside the area?

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

I also want to ask about the pre-volunteer programme because that is about to start next year I believe. I understand that the initial pilot will be in the five Olympic boroughs and that there will be other areas that will be on that pre-volunteer programme - representatives in Haringey and particularly areas like Tottenham and Edmonton, where there is a great diversity and great deprivation and some of highest worklessness in London. I am just wondering how, as a representative, I can get those local people involved and how we will go about engaging our local community in a...

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

Can I also ask about equality in the volunteering programme as well, because if you look at Manchester, I believe they had a great successful volunteering programme and they paid particular attention to long-term unemployed young people, members of minority groups and those with special needs and disabilities, and I am just wondering, following the things that Dee highlighted earlier, will you ensure that there is equality of opportunity at every stage of the process? Will you be monitoring that as well?

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

How will you be picking those areas that will be the pilots for the pre-volunteer programme?

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

One of the concerns is that if people are volunteering, then they should not be out of pocket and I think the bid documents put the case that you are looking at; if people come from outside the area, people will be opening their homes up, and they can stay free of charge. Obviously if there are a large proportion from outside London, that makes it a bit more difficult but I am wondering when do you start that programme of advertising for people to become part of it by offering free accommodation

• Reference: 2006/0240-1
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I am sure you will agree with me that it's wonderful that so many Londoners have come forward to register as volunteers for the 2012 games. Would you share with the Assembly more details of the measures being put in place to ensure that these volunteers will receive full access to training and development and will not be required to work in conditions that are uncomfortable or difficult.