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• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 November 2012

Thank you, Chair. I should say I was singularly unsuccessful in getting any tickets from the LOCOG website for the simple reason that I used a Visa card and had to go somewhere else, but that is not the gripe I am raising. I think there is a concern about how many tickets the corporate sponsors got on the blue ribbon events. Could you inform us how many they did get during the blue ribbon events, given that the financial contribution from them was actually smaller than that made by council taxpayers and general taxpayers?

• Reference: 2012/0002-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 07 March 2012

Why do you refuse to publish a detailed breakdown of how many tickets have been sold, and at what price, for each event for both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games?

• Reference: 2009/0121-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

Are you happy with the progress of the Cultural Olympiad so far?

• Reference: 2008/0013-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

How will you make sure that spectators with disabilities and those who are less able bodied can access all aspects of the Games?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

I think, looking back at Beijing, the bar has been put very high, particularly by the athletes. I think we should not forget that something like 43 World Records and 120 Olympic Records were broken, so they certainly felt comfortable. It is probably the best answer for the Beijing bashers who suggested the air pollution may affect their performance; it probably enhanced it. Coming to the spectators' experience, what I found as a foreigner there was that it was actually much easier for me to get hold of a ticket and I think the Olympic Authority should look at their...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

Just following on from Navin's [Shah] comment, on the cultural side you mentioned in your opening remarks that 286 cultural events had taken place in the Cultural Olympiad, which is great. Have you got an indication of how many of those were run by the third sector and how many of them were run by ethnic minorities?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

Seb, it appears Jacques Rogge [IOC President] has changed his position on the Olympic Stadium. Does that put you in a difficult position?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

This is not my attempt to get the gold medal for bean counting but you gave us an update on the sponsorship - Paul mentioned the ticket revenues - but the big cash cow is really TV revenue. My experience out in Beijing was certainly that the Chinese are hooked on Olympic gold and I dare say China Central Television (CCTV), Chinese national TV, will pay quite a big price for the rights in London 2012. In some ways we are fortunate to be in this position with two markets: North America and the Chinese market. Given they only paid...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Even when there is going to be an expanding TV market?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I know. That is the problem. However, it is not just about role models. It is not just about the Tanni Grey-Thompsons of this world. It is not just about the Mike Braces. It is about community sport because surely the legacy of the Paralympics must be that people with disabilities, and in particular young children with disabilities, should be able to look at the Olympics, become inspired and say `I could do that'. However, there is no point in thinking `I could do that' if there are then no sports facilities locally to enable them to do it.