Search questions

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

You have made it very clear that when the Games are on you are responsible for the security within venue, you said, so within, for example, the Park. Given that there have been huge numbers of break-ins over the years into train and Tube depots, how are you going to ensure that public transport does not pose a security threat, particularly when you have got lines bisecting the Park, going around the Park and, I think, possibly even under the Park?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Thank you. Just following on from that, I understand you have done your security budget, but there is another thing which is security checks of individuals. When you have 70,000 volunteers, you will have to get security checks on every one of them. Who is going to do that with the police? The police charge for it. It takes time. So, what are your arrangements for that?