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• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I still find it extraordinary that your idea of producing facilities that are at least as good includes a facility of a road racing track that is both sides of a main road. That is just ludicrous.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

When I was in the negotiations with the LDA it was never, ever suggested that the track that the Eastway Users' Group would go back to would be on two sides of a main road. I can assure you. I was there. It was never even suggested.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Can I come back to some of the specifics? Take the Eastway Users' Group specifically, which is what my prime concern is about and about which, as you know, I have been negotiating quite a lot with your officials. First of all your officials told me that British Cycling was in favour of the application that you had put in. British Cycling told me last night that they are certainly not in favour of it, and they referred me to their website. Their website describes the plans that you have as `unacceptable' and I understand from them that that has...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I want to put it on record I think it is totally unacceptable, particularly when your officers tell me that the way to enhance it is to put some screening up. The whole situation is appalling. It is not the way that you should be thinking. We are supposed to be leaving a sports legacy, and this is not the way to leave a sports legacy for cyclists.

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Obviously you have not given us figures so, to a certain extent, we have got to conjecture what they are but, say, the cost of the Stadium in your budget is £250 million - I do not know if that figure is correct or not - and then you discover that, lo and behold, now £300 million is the true cost. Does that extra £50 million come from the contingency? What happens about that?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So is that procedure set up or is it to be determined?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Sir Roy , what I am trying to get at is how does the contingency fund work to fund specific projects?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So the process will be that you would have to make an application, and that application would be considered in the due fullness of time. Or is there a time period in which that should be addressed?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

OK. You have this series of different projects, all with their own budgets within the overall budget, and you are going to put a series of contracts out to tender. Supposing, on the first one of those, you have a budget that says it is £250 million, but the cheapest cost comes in at £300 million. Does that mean the £50 million will come from the contingency fund, or does it have a knock on effect on the other budgets?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

What happens after the £500 million contingency reserve is exhausted? Where do you go next?