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• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

Could I take up one point with you on the whole relative costs of salaries and so on? Mr Higgins, you, I think, serve with seven other directors on the ODA, receiving pretty substantial salaries. Indeed, I believe you, this last year, did forego half of your bonus until 2012. Would it be reasonable for you and your fellow directors to consider foregoing your complete bonus until you have finished the job, and then receive whatever you are entitled to, through the success you have achieved?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

The Mayor, of course, has an aspiration that, wherever possible, the officials should use public transport. Now the media are in Bloomsbury, I believe, near the bullet train, so will they use that? Many of the officials will be close to the Central line. Will they use that?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Can I ask you what reasons they have given for withdrawing?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

There is only one single bidder now for the Aquatics Centre. Have you got any concerns about that process and does that place the project in any jeopardy?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Given the experience within my constituency, in Brent and Harrow at Wembley Stadium, where the cost of rebuilding the stadium now is, at conservative estimates with a small `c', five times the original value that was expected, are you going to undertake a review of that particular project as part of the review of the bid documents?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

One of the problems about any sort construction like this is the original surveys of the land to make sure the condition is such. Are you satisfied that the surveys that have been done are sufficiently robust to then defend the inflation and the costs expected?