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• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

Thank you, Chair. I would have thought one of the greatest risks that you actually run is the security of the site during build and, indeed, during the Games itself. Are you content that the structure, where you have got Ian Johnson now heading security, I assume within the Park? I am not sure if he has got responsibility for all the 134 sites plus the free to view Games. You have got him there. You have got the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) through Chris Allison [Assistant Commissioner, Central Operations, Metropolitan Police Service] and the public order with the responsibility...

• Reference: 2008/0475
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Will the Mayor please confirm the total cost to the London Development Agency of seeking legal counsel relating to the summons to appear before the extraordinary meeting of the London Assembly on 7th February 2008?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

On Tuesday at his press conference the Mayor said, 'The Aquatics Centre will be built on time and to budget.' Now, we are all aware that two days late is not good enough. Which budget do you think he is talking about?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Can I thank you for that and indeed welcome you to the Assembly for the first time. I am aware of both your and Mr Higgins' industrial backgrounds and I am also aware of what you inherited when you took on the role that you have got now. I am conscious that you are sorting things out rather than ploughing a field from fresh. Last Friday the Mayor in an interview said, 'Crossrail is not like the Olympics; we made a guess about the Olympics and had to work it out afterwards.' How close are you now to getting it...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I understand the commercial sensitivity but you will also be aware that the Aquatics Centre is perhaps foremost in Londoners' minds at the moment. It is the changing budget there which gives people concern. It erodes confidence. We know the overall budget has gone from £2.3 billion to over £9 billion, plus the costs of assembling the land, and Londoners have this lack of confidence in the figures that are being given. When we see that the Aquatics Centre has gone up from £75 million to £150 million, yet the roof size is being reduced from 35,000 square foot to...

• Reference: 2007/0085-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 07 November 2007

What are your views on the Government`s continued refusal to fully fund LFEPA's London Resilience requirements?

• Reference: 2007/1187
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 23 May 2007

What were the strategic aims of this market research?

• Reference: 2006/0144-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Why did the LDA publish the report 'Educational Experiences & Achievements of Black Boys in London Schools 2000 - 2003' and the Mayor publish the follow up 'Black Teachers in London'? Is this a recognition of the flaws in the earlier report, or of the overtly political nature of the latter?

• Reference: 2006/0162-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

How did the £10,000 paid to Avcen Limited in 2004/05 benefit Londoners and the general London economy? What were the strategic aims, what was the outcome and how did the LDA monitor and gauge the success of this project?

• Reference: 2005/1866
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 18 October 2005

Do you agree that the operational costs of the MPS and MPA arising from the terrorist attacks of 7/7 and the failed attacks of 21/7 should be borne completely by the Treasury rather than the London taxpayer via the MPA precept?