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• Reference: 2010/0205-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 December 2010

What are your greatest risks?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 08 December 2010

You have pretty much said that most Londoners and people from Britain are quite tolerant of changing circumstances. The weather in the last couple of weeks --

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 08 December 2010

Can I press you a bit harder on the document Keep on Running and your advice in it to businesses to reduce non essential journeys and avoid travel where possible. Is there, lurking behind this warning, a real worry in your minds that, despite all the Tube upgrades and all the other measures that have been put in place and the forward planning, the transport infrastructure really is creaking and possibly will not be able to cope?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 December 2010

Just a quick question in my usual friendly fashion. Many of my constituents and a lot of Londoners will be very anxious that, particularly in the light of the events of the last week - and I know Lord Coe has commented on this already - that any perception that the ORN was some sort of bung to make it easy for rich men in blazers - in some cases corrupt men in blazers - to drive around London - would be very strongly resisted. Dee Doocey (Chair): Your question, Mr Biggs? John Biggs (AM): The question is here. Londoners...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 December 2010

We all wish heartily for a very successful Games but I hope you will understand, therefore, it is important to get the worries out and debated and sorted early in advance of the event itself. As you know the Transport Committee has been doing a scrutiny exercise. We are midway through it and we are due to see you in the New Year. I wanted to put to you some of the worries that seem to be coming up through that process that we need to be resolved. London's councils were very unhappy about the lack of sharing of detailed...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 December 2010

John, I want to follow up on my colleague's, Val Shawcross', questions and I want to add the concerns of many of my constituents who, as you know, live in Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest. I can assure you that, although we can sit here gladly talking about traffic orders and the discussions there, what they are concerned about and what they want to know as soon as possible - and they should be knowing now - is will the orders be over 40 days and nights? I have put that figure together in terms of the Games, the gap...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 08 December 2010

We have been talking about various obvious areas of legacy but there is one piece of legacy that is to the very front of the Mayor's mind and that is the upgrading of the use of the river and river transport. I must declare an interest of helping him particularly in this. Can I ask you why it is that, in the transport planning, the provision of free travel to Olympic ticket holders on the Underground, the overground and the buses, there does not appear to be any such free travel to encourage people to use the river? As I...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 December 2010

First I would like to say that I was part of the visit recently to the venue and I thought it was absolutely amazing, so well done to David and John and thank you to Paul for showing us round. That was very generous of your time. That is the nice bit! Now where I think you are failing, Seb and Paul; you mentioned catering. Over the years I have written you lots of letters about the food and I started to narrow my ambition on what I can achieve, so I would just like to talk about chicken. In...

• Question by: Victoria Borwick
• Meeting date: 08 December 2010

I would like to go back to the risks question on security please. Could you talk a little bit more please about both the cost and the personnel issues? We talked about the training venues. I want to know a bit more about who will be responsible for the security of those, because you mentioned they were during the Games? How are you doing that? Also, the cost for us of that? That is not only at the venues but the transportation.

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 08 December 2010

John picked up on this particular question. With the budget being - I would not say squeezed - and not there for aspects that we feel would be necessary for a secure Olympic Games and with the heightened threat of terrorism taking place, what sort of discussions - I do not want to go into the inside details of Special Branch and all the rest; that would be nonsense - have taken place and what sort of security can you offer to the public both in this country, and people visiting this country, that they will be secure in all...