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• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Finally, given that you have milestones and key milestones and a set date to achieve it, would it not have been better to have set up bonus payments rather than contingency sums, given that is going to be the name of the game - getting to key stages at key times at critical points? Clearly we would rather be giving them money for achieving that, rather than spending their time making those claims, which invariably half the building trade does.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Sir Roy, if we accept the Government figures as the upper limits to the expenditure on the Olympics, I think the key thing is the management of the contingencies. I am worried that we find ourselves in contracts with contractors who then spend most of their time making claims for the contingencies. They are very generous; about 60% of the build costs. I have certainly had that experience of managing projects myself. What do you have lined up in the procurement arrangements with contractors which make sure they focus and achieve the milestones, rather than putting in the estimators to...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

You have mentioned the Cabinet Committees that are keeping an eye on this. Surely the building contract and the legality of that will supersede anything that they can decide about which contingency sums can be drawn from or not.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Which facilities will be moved?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

OK. Where are they going?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

So is this just things like seating and bits and pieces, or is it actual venues and facilities?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Inside London or outside London?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

In your initial response to Darren's [Johnson] question you gave quite an impressive list of facilities which will be available on the site after the Games are after. A while ago there was talk about some of those facilities being dismantled to take them elsewhere, to share the legacy around. Is that still the case?