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• Reference: 2009/0116-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

What are your top three greatest risks and how are you managing these, and what is your greatest reputational risk?

• Reference: 2008/0010-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

What lessons has the ODA learned from the Beijing Games?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Can I ask one tiny supplementary which is a little bit tangential? I understand that Queen Mary College - which is a university round the corner from where I live and just down the road from Stratford - has made its student village - about 3,000 properties - available for the entirety of the Olympics. Is that in some way making up for the shortfall in accommodation that is likely to be built at Stratford?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

I do appreciate that most of the questions we want to ask you are probably subject to commercial confidentiality and so the last thing you want to do is announce the answers in public, but I will try one and maybe you can give us a thoughtful answer on this. It is about the IBC, the Media and Broadcast Centre. Is there a risk that it might not ultimately be built where it is proposed that it be built but that an opportunity might arise out of current other developments in the property market to relocate them within the Stratford...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

And how much have you received?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I'm delighted to report, Chair, that the gunners across the river haven't quite found their range yet! My question is about education, because clearly if we're going to avoid the construction of incinerators, we need to change people's mind in London. And there is quite a lot of good on the ground work in individual boroughs, but there is a London-wide responsibility for an education campaign. Can Mr Duffy tell me what steps he's taking to ensure that's the most effective campaign that's possible?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I don't intentionally want to fill the time, but I find those rather inadequate answers, and I put it to Mr Duffy that a problem with this was that the bids were rather inadequate and didn't show the sort of vision and leadership that London should be showing on waste minimisation and on education. A couple of sound-bites is not itself enough. It's got to be joined up with the boroughs. It's got to be an effective, driven campaign, with leadership from London. Do you think that London is offering the leadership on this that it should be?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

But clearly you are a policy advisor and clearly the legislation does allow you to hide behind confidentiality, which I do respect with some reluctance, but there is in theory a position where - I don't want incinerators in East London by the way - where the evidence base suggests that the health concerns are not as well founded as people might think and yet the political context is one in which they remain unacceptable. How would you manage that as a waste advisor?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

I want to go back to the beginning of your presentation and I wanted to understand the context in which we're listening to you, because you are the Mayor's spokesman and therefore what you say is the Mayor's view, but on the other hand you made it clear that you're a policy advisor to the Mayor which implies that there are occasions where you have advised him and he has chosen not to accept your advice. First of all, has there been any such occasion and can you imagine that occurring?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

So is it fair then to say that you have a different view from him on incineration?