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• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 14 November 2012

Thank you, madam. There is no doubt, we all agree what a phenomenal event it was, well, the two events, the Olympics and the Paralympics. It seems to me rather unfortunate that this is the one thing that seems to be besmirching the phenomenal record because it is being commented on in both the broadcast media and in the written media. There is one thing that I do not quite understand. There was a Twitter feed - I think it was called @2012TicketAlert - which could have directed people to your website when you did have unsold tickets. Is it...

• 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?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 07 March 2012

Gentlemen, about three or four weeks ago there was a Channel 4 Dispatches programme on which indeed Dee Doocey and my colleague Andrew Boff were fairly major contributors. I think that a lot of the problems that we have already been talking about this morning were dealt with in that programme, or those questions were raised, can I ask you whether you two can confidently refute the various allegations that were made in the Dispatches programme or not?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 07 March 2012

Part of the business plan, as you set it out, was of course about transport and traffic, and the part I want to concentrate on is the Games Lanes. There seems to be a little bit of confusion. In the last few days, there has been some suggestion that you may be allowing some other people into the network. Can you specify? Are you going to suddenly allow in black cabs and non-emergency vehicles, funeral corteges? Can you give us some detail, please?

• 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: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

Can I just say, first of all, I am very pleased you have been to Wimbledon to talk to them and to start to look at their ticketing because it is something that you, Paul, will know we are very proud of in South West London, the techniques that have been built up at Wimbledon. The question I want to ask you, though, in terms of lessons from Beijing is this one: there was, frankly, some disappointment expressed at the way London was symbolised at the Closing Ceremony in Beijing. I do not know whether you two were proud of...

• 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: 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.

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

I have absolutely no doubt that that is the case. I have never had any doubts that that is the case. My concern is turning that into action. I am very clear what the legacy of the Olympics is going to be. More jobs, more houses, more employment opportunities, up-skilling the work force, etc, etc. I am less clear what the legacy of the Paralympics is going to be and it seems to me that nobody is taking responsibility for fronting this and for making sure it happens. I will give you an example. The Liberal Democrat group on the...