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• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

And there are long term plans for financing these facilities beyond the Games, because, as we know, swimming pools for instance, are very expensive for somebody to take on, long term?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So, for instance, in Hackney, there will be the opportunity for local communities perhaps to take over football fields, pitches and that sort of thing there?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I was listening to what you were saying to John Biggs and I take on board that you have steering groups of all sorts looking at how you develop the facilities with their legacy beyond the Games in mind. Can I just seek some clarification then? Are you saying that you already have teams of people in place who are organising proper financial and business plans for these venues, so they can be seamlessly transferred after the Games to groups who will then be taking them on to use them in the future?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Or workless. They are not workless, because they are not able to work. They are doing other things. Elizabeth Howlett AM: You have hit on a bête noire of mine, I must say, because I think we have marginalised and done very badly by a whole group of youngsters leaving schools who have manual skills and do not get training. There is nothing disrespectful about saying you are a manual worker. It is an essential element in our life and, in fact, Poles are keeping the construction industry going. You talked about people coming from the Asian continent with great...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

: Indeed, but I think someone should ask well what would be the point in trying to get into work people who are long-term sick and disabled, who have obviously taken themselves out of work because they cannot work? What is the point of getting students into work when they are there to be studying and what is the point in spending a lot of resources on getting people to work who have chosen not to work because they are carers at home or indeed, as I have just said, there is a percentage of women who choose not to...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I am staggered by the figure of 24, because I am aware that there are a hell of a lot more businesses than 24 in that area, so it sounds to me like you have an awful long way to go. The main point I want to say to you: I do not know whether you saw some of the local businessmen, who were congregated outside City Hall this morning in advance of this meeting. I think some of them are in the audience now. They are shaking their heads in disbelief at what they just heard from you. I...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

No, I understand that.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

All of the businesses? Right. How often?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How would you define the negotiations that are ongoing with all the businesses?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Well, it is quite a long answer, is it not?