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  • Risks (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 08 December 2010
    Paul, you talked about ticketing as one of your financial risks. Can I unpick your objective there on affordability? As I understand it, you are saying that 2.5 million tickets will be at £20 or less. 1.3 million of those are for the 'pay your age' for kids and 1 million are for football, so, by my maths, that leaves just 200,000 available for the whole of the UK for people to bid for for all the Olympic sports other than football. Is that correct?
  • Zero waste / zero carbon Games (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    .... I would just draw your attention, if you have not already seen it, to the evidence we received from the London Sustainable Development Commission. That is in a letter dated 20 September, where they basically draw attention to the very positive work that is going on, but they do make the point that in relation to legacy aspects, where the full sustainability, as it were, comes to be seen, that further work needs to be done on that. It particularly says, `Should the bid be successful, there needs to be a greater understanding of the sustainability aspects of the...
  • Council tax and the Olympics (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    All the discussion of the finances so far has focused on the cost side. Can I try to focus on the benefits side and ask what will be published as part of the case-making and the building of public support in terms of projections around the economic benefits - jobs, tax revenues, extra visitors, hotels, etc.? There ought to be a very positive economic case for this, and I fear it is not getting out.
  • Strongest Asset

    • Reference: 2004/0304-1
    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    What is London's greatest asset in connection with the bid and how does it compare to our rivals?
  • Sustainability

    • Reference: 2004/0316-1
    • Question by: Mike Tuffrey
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    What plans are there to make the Olympic Village and other facilities for the Games (including housing) environmentally sustainable in terms of energy and water efficiency?