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• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

It is just a quick one. I understand that the delay at Hog Hill has been caused by you finding a particular wildlife there that needs to be preserved, and there has been six months delay to date. Can you guarantee us that it will not be a year's delay or 18 months' delay? Where are we with that?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I am already working with LOCOG, in fact, but I was concerned about your aspect of it and if that is something that you are working on?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

One of my roles is as Chair of London Food, which is a Mayoral Commission, and we are trying to reduce London's ecological footprint. One of the legacy aspects of all the work that you are doing now is if we can encourage farmers to start producing food for the Olympics and beyond, local food, that will reduce our carbon emissions, reduce our ecological footprint. Do you feel you have enough advice on that at the moment? Do you feel it is something perhaps you could know more about? It is an issue both of capacity building within British farmers...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So it has been sorted now and it will be finished by September? That is what you are saying?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So the newts will be rehoused?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

I want to go back to jobs and I want to talk about the jobs that are your responsibility. Can you confirm for us the total amount of jobs projected? I was present at a recent presentation by your excellent Head of HR which really electrified the room, local communities, and put meat around the skeleton of the plans. I would like you to confirm with us here today the absolute numbers that you are expecting to employ. I also understand that you have employed - is it your first 500 or 5,000 people? I saw something printed this week...