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• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

A year before the occasion that Darren mentioned, there was a letter sent to London Citizens to which you, Seb, were a signatory, which said indeed that the strategies would be informed by the commitment to identify a living wage. I accept that is not a commitment but in line with your concerns about transparency, how are Londoners to know to what extent your decisions are informed by that?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

You say it is not an absolute condition but only a year ago the Mayor said, talking about the living wage, and I quote, `That would be the bedrock on which the hiring and employment strategy of all parts of the Olympic family in London will rest'. At that stage the thinking very much seemed to be to make it a clear contractual condition and the QC's advice that the Mayor got with regard to the living wage in terms of GLA contracts was, `I do not consider that the GLA would be acting unlawfully if it gave some weight...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Within the issue of sustainable food, you will also, for example, make sure that the cultural diversity of London is reflected? That's a given, I presume?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Obviously we are at a fairly early stage of the process on some of these. I understand why Jenny (Jones) is raising the issue, but can I just have a commitment that as well as turning the policies into guidelines, you will also have some very clear targets or achievable goals particularly in relation to the legacy, so that in relation to this whole question of sustainability, and particularly in this question on food, we can actually see some legacy effects as well on this rather than just the Games themselves?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

At the moment McDonald's have an exclusive right over all the retailing within the Olympic Stadium and presumably you are going to have to do some debating with them to find out just how much sustainability they will accept?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

You mentioned the sustainability policy but in fact food only gets a passing mention and I am extremely concerned this means that it could easily be marginalised. Like it or not, environmental and sustainability commitments quite often get swept aside when time gets short and money gets short. It is considered almost a very nice optional extra. Now, I am very concerned that that does not happen.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Can I put in a plea that whatever food is provided will be reasonably priced? I know that this is somewhat subjective and what some people might consider reasonable, others may not. However, clearly where people have a monopoly, there is a huge temptation to charge whatever they like. Another thing: can I put in a plea for water to be provided free of charge because at the Athens Games, if you went in, they actually confiscated your water bottle if you had one with you. I was horrified. I think that is really important that at least plain water...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

And I was very sorry you did not manage to make it to the Green Party conference but I am sure we can welcome you to the next one

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I wasn't expecting you to have the targets now but that these guidelines would actually be quite specific in terms of not just the Games themselves but the legacy aspect.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Right, so you will go through the whole business about reusable packaging, minimal packaging, recyclable packaging and then composting waste and all of those issues?