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• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I do not think you were at the ODA at the time, but the last time the ODA representatives came to the Assembly's Environment Committee we were promised a sustainability plan across the whole of the Olympic family would be out soon. That is really what I want to hear about. When is that coming out, if ever? What are the main features?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Can I just go back to the water transport issue which, David, you raised? I am glad you mentioned Prescott Lock, which was welcomed certainly by many members of the London Waterways Commission. It is just that we would like to see more specific targets to drive that and I think that would give it a lot more focus. Also on water transport, there are parties like the Port of London Authority which are keen to look at passenger movements from the Olympic site to the O2 site; they do think that would encourage boat services north to south of...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Finally, given that you have milestones and key milestones and a set date to achieve it, would it not have been better to have set up bonus payments rather than contingency sums, given that is going to be the name of the game - getting to key stages at key times at critical points? Clearly we would rather be giving them money for achieving that, rather than spending their time making those claims, which invariably half the building trade does.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Sir Roy, if we accept the Government figures as the upper limits to the expenditure on the Olympics, I think the key thing is the management of the contingencies. I am worried that we find ourselves in contracts with contractors who then spend most of their time making claims for the contingencies. They are very generous; about 60% of the build costs. I have certainly had that experience of managing projects myself. What do you have lined up in the procurement arrangements with contractors which make sure they focus and achieve the milestones, rather than putting in the estimators to...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

You have mentioned the Cabinet Committees that are keeping an eye on this. Surely the building contract and the legality of that will supersede anything that they can decide about which contingency sums can be drawn from or not.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

My question is to David. You mentioned the extra money for regeneration. Does that include investment in the local environmental legacy in the lower Lea Valley, in the canals and rivers?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

Does that include, specifically, investment in Prescott Lock or Prescott Channel?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Thank you. Mr Higgins, I am actually interested in the finances from a different angle, from the LOCOG angle. I assume the project management side is something you will be on top of as professionals. I just think, actually, on the income side there may have been one or two opportunities you may have missed. I mean the TV revenue side, for example, whilst it goes through LOCOG it sounds as though it is going to be a set amount rather than a set percentage. It sounds as though the next Olympics straight after the Beijing one is actually a...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Renewable energy is obviously one part of the green legacy. I remember a lot of the hard sell was that this was going to be the greenest Olympics ever. One of the things I am struck by is that you do not appear to have an environmental sustainability champion on the board. Is that an omission, and how are you addressing that along with the other aspects of environmental concerns that you are going to be addressing during the delivery of the Olympics?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

I will give you another example. You mentioned, for example, procurement standards. One of the things that could make it very sustainable, taking an issue you brought out, the transportation of goods and services into the site, is the use of the canals and the rivers, as co-Chair of the London Waterways Commission, is something we want to see. It would be a very useful benefit to the freight industry. I do not hear much on where the thinking has been going on that front.