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• 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: 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: 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?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I just wanted to ask a question about the physical legacy on the Olympic site. You mentioned earlier that there would be state-of-the-art Paralympic facilities in Waltham Forest, which is great and something we could do with in London, but it appears to be being done at the cost of some playing fields being lost, cricket pitches and football pitches. I am not sure how that is being accommodated. What I really want is some reinstatement of those facilities for local people in the locality. I have been approached by a number of people - the local sporting community and...

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

Well, there is not a comparable Games, is there? There is only one in 2012, but thank you very much.

• 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...