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• Reference: 2012/0230-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2012

In the light of your experiences at LOCOG, what was the one thing you would have done differently?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2012

Right, but once you take the football out, which is a rather special sort of event, the profile is a bit less generous to the lowest type of tickets.

• Reference: 2012/0001-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 March 2012

Are you satisfied that only 36% of tickets to the men's 100m final will be going to the public?

• Reference: 2009/0120-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

What are your top three greatest risks and how are you managing these, and what is your greatest reputational risk?

• Reference: 2008/0012-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

What lessons has LOCOG learned from the Beijing Games?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

I hesitate to come in but it is always nice to follow the flat earth wing of the Tory Party. Would you not agree that a different interpretation of the sponsorship issue is that the Olympics must grandstand British business if at all possible, and be used to highlight our success, and that we should celebrate that? Indeed, if we wanted to be pernickety about this we could highlight the fact that historically Cadbury, I think, come from a Quaker background and they actually have a very strong history in terms of ploughing the furrow of early social concern as...

• 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: 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: 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...