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• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 14 November 2012

This is not in any way to diminish what I think is your spectacular achievement, but it is just one story. My family got tickets for the Paralympics. We were unable to get any tickets for sessions at the Games that we wanted to go to. At the very last minute, at a pretty hefty price, we were able to go to the O2 to see the first Saturday - absolutely amazing men's gymnastics - but it was half empty. Why was that? This was the morning. It might have filled up in the afternoon, but in the morning.

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

Is this your biggest worry, the budget? What keeps you awake at night, other than young children, if you have got them?

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

I am trying to get some sense of the light and the dark, whether it is finance, whether it is security.

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

My interest is less how you control the cost - I trust you to do that - more the sense of the risk analysis. Is finance, making sure the budget does end in balance, as it were, the biggest issue or are there specific other management issues?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Are you going to appoint a member of staff or even, indeed, more, to co-ordinate the engagement with young people because they need very special facilitation? I can understand you might not have something yet but I think it is very necessary.