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• Reference: 2009/0124-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

In the current climate, where all public bodies are having to tighten their belts, what specific actions are you taking to reduce unnecessary expenditure?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

I was reading in the press yesterday the story that more than 100 rapists have been let off with a police caution and that 66 of these cases that were highlighted involved child rape. One of the examples that was given in this article was a woman who had been sexually abused by a 34 year old man between the ages of 13 and 15 years of age and yet he only got a caution. I understand that a caution could mean nothing more than two years on the sex offenders register. So I was wondering, do you know how...

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So you are reasonably confident that the figures will be achievable?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Now some of those items might be either subject to overrun, and therefore higher costs, or it is very likely that the cost of transport will increase at a fairly high inflation rate. How are you tackling that?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Can we move on to the budget item where we have absolutely no information, which is transport. We have a very exact figure of £794 million. What does this cover for the ODA core costs?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I was going to ask for slightly more than Geoff Pope has requested, which was if you can provide us, at the least, with a breakdown now of the transport costs which are, if you like, capital; the investment in the Jubilee Line upgrade and so on, and the revenue costs which relate to the operational matters that you have described?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I still find it extraordinary that your idea of producing facilities that are at least as good includes a facility of a road racing track that is both sides of a main road. That is just ludicrous.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

When I was in the negotiations with the LDA it was never, ever suggested that the track that the Eastway Users' Group would go back to would be on two sides of a main road. I can assure you. I was there. It was never even suggested.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Can I come back to some of the specifics? Take the Eastway Users' Group specifically, which is what my prime concern is about and about which, as you know, I have been negotiating quite a lot with your officials. First of all your officials told me that British Cycling was in favour of the application that you had put in. British Cycling told me last night that they are certainly not in favour of it, and they referred me to their website. Their website describes the plans that you have as `unacceptable' and I understand from them that that has...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I want to put it on record I think it is totally unacceptable, particularly when your officers tell me that the way to enhance it is to put some screening up. The whole situation is appalling. It is not the way that you should be thinking. We are supposed to be leaving a sports legacy, and this is not the way to leave a sports legacy for cyclists.