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• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Could you tell me what role the OPLC will have in consulting the populated parts of the proposed MDC?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Can I touch on the sustainability assurance aspects. The Commission for a Sustainable 2012 does not just do the construction and the staging of the Games, it includes legacy, albeit that process is going to come to an end in about 2013. The first question, for the record, is do you welcome that scrutiny and will you cooperate fully with the Commission for a Sustainable 2012 for the legacy aspects?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

I wanted to look at the housing side of what you are doing and dig into the finances behind that will underpin the proportions between social affordable, owner occupied and, indeed, private rented possibly. When you were here last time we talked a lot about the remediation and the 60 centimetres and the impact of switching to the housing that you gave us the pictures for where there is a garden at the back. Can you update us on your financial modelling about the additional costs that are associated with remediation for family sized housing and how that impacts the...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Could you tell me please how long Londoners will have to wait before they can start to use the venues and visitor attractions on the Olympic site?

• Reference: 2010/0050-1
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

How does the continuing uncertainty over Olympic land and debt affect the OPLC's ability to operate effectively?

• Reference: 2010/0068-1
• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

How will the OPLC ensure that Olympic venues can be used by the local community after 2012?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

Baroness Ford, you told the House of Commons' Select Committee that it could take an additional £450 million to convert the Olympic Park after the Games had finished. What would you achieve with that money?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

Andrew Boff has already mentioned about the £450 million coming into the OPLC for the 25 year programme from 2013. It is the idea of this funny money coming in. You mentioned earlier the property development market for housing at the moment is quite poor. How much of this finance and the 40% land that you will be working on will actually go to housing for the community and, of that, how much will go towards council renting property? I do not understand the concept of affordable housing. How many houses do you intend to build on this complex and...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

I want just to pursue this issue of what the land is fit for. You talked about longer term development and you talked about family housing and so forth. We had a meeting of [the Assembly's] Budget and Performance Committee a couple of weeks ago and the LDA, when pressed about the debt, said that a fair chunk of the debt actually will still sit in the LDA's books to pay off the bills for the remediation so the issue of remediation then came up. Could I therefore just be clear what your understanding of the condition of the land...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

I absolutely understand that if you are going to grow vegetables it has to be remediated to a certain level and the LDA has not done that. I also understand and accept LDA's assurance that it has remediated it to a standard fit to hold the Games on. That is fine. What I am interested in is the commercial exploitation of the land and any uncertainty. You just said, Margaret, as with any Brownfield site developers would have to be aware, but the LDA told us that it is giving you this brilliant land that it has spent an absolute...