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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Hopefully by Christmas there will not be people living within the Olympic Park who will be subject to such immediate environmental challenges and problems. However, for the wider community, including people I represent across East London and including Jennette's [Arnold] constituency in Hackney and beyond, I think people would be a lot more reassured if we go back to the point that was made earlier about transparency; if there was a clear transparency about environmental information about dust levels and about pollution issues. I know I have been intimately involved in the issue about radioactive waste, for example, and I...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 November 2006

The Mayor of London has expressed the argument in this way; that you could effectively deliver a no frills Olympic Games within the £2.375 billion envelope that was originally posited, but that in order to enhance the regeneration benefit additional sums of money are available. Now obviously he is a politician so perhaps he would put it that way. You are project people. Would you fundamentally agree with that analysis or do you think there are areas where even to deliver a no frills Olympics the pressures on the £2.375 billion are such that it would be difficult to provide...

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Is there an element of you saying, `Well if some of this expansion does not take place, then it is not that critical because there is already a reasonable transport network'? Is that how I take that?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Are you aware that when we had an investigation into the new North London Railway about the expansion, which is planned for 2011, that the North London Borough Transport officers were highly sceptical as to whether the infrastructure could be delivered by 2012.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

What sort of risk assessments will you be putting in these various transport upgrades to try to assess where any weaknesses might occur?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

What sort of risk assessments will you be putting in these various transport upgrades to try to assess where any weaknesses might occur?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

I do not share Mr Pope's anxiety yet about the East London Line and North London Line, but I do have an anxiety about Stratford domestic station. I note from your eyebrows that you might have such an anxiety as well. To what extent do the Olympics require its reconstruction, and would you agree that there is, at present, a fairly substantial risk in that we do not understand the full costs of reconstructing the station?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Would you agree then that the risk is that in the worst case one would have to do that with unknown costs associated? Assuming we can get the current owners to rearrange the station, part of the problem is it is a large Victorian structure which needs to have new subways and walkways and connections and escalators and so onput into it. Would you agree that the big risk at present is that the initial estimates for that cost were way below what the current numbers suggested might be costing?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Thank you. Would you regard the transport plans as being ambitious? In the scheme of the whole project, I am trying to gauge if you feel that transport is more perhaps at risk than other aspects.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

What would you say, then, to a student from Malmesbury, or their parents, who say `Well we have seen this before, and the whole area fills up with expensive housing which we could not even dream of buying? On balance, a lot of the jobs we used to rely on disappeared from the area and we seem to be down on the deal'. How are you going to play your part in making sure that is not the case?