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  • South London Venues (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Thank you for that answer, but you will recall that one of the issues that was raised at the five-borough planning meeting was the legacy. Really my question is about what guarantees we are building in to ensure that facilities that are built really can have the revenue in order that they can carry on, and we are not left in a position with so-called `white elephants- around the place.

  • South London Venues (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Can I just press you: when you say "sign off" and "your assurance," we hear this, and people in Hackney and in east London have heard this time and time again, so can you just dig deeper? What do you mean? What guarantees are there that there will be a revenue stream and that these jobs that are created will stay local? I do not get a sense of what is happening and who is going to be leading. Will the LDA be leading on behalf of the Mayor to ensure that the legacy is longer than the Games?

  • South London Venues (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Can I just take you round to the people. One of the riches of the city and one of the riches of the Games pitch is the diversity and the ethnic minority communities that are at the heart of this area of London. What guarantees do they have that they will be seen as part of a future in terms of jobs, or will they only be brought out to serve at the banquets?

  • Legacy (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Following on from that, all the legacy assurances and promises we have heard here today will all be handed over to an independent bid company. Could you just tell us about this company's accountability to the Mayor? How will we, then, as Members of the London Assembly have access to this company?

  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [14]

    • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    As the member for the area that Jenny just spoke about, I do have to start by just thanking Jenny (Jones) for her cross-party support on this. I also have to say this is has been a matter that has exercised the previous Member for this area, myself, and the elected members of the borough, and it was central to the discussion of the five-borough bids. All that could be done has been done, and it is one area where we have got some assurances, and also, the community are going to win before the Games, whether we get the...

  • Lessons learnt (Supplementary) [18]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    I am sorry I just must comment on that, because we hear you saying that all the time about every type of finance, that the Government would not dare not give you the money, Mr Mayor, and time and time again, the Government does indeed dare not to give you the money. Therefore, I do not think that is necessarily a comfort for us to hear that from you now, and I think it is leaving it far too late, by the way, to address the overspend issue next summer when we may have already won the bid. Londoners, if...

  • Undertakings made to the British Olympic Committee (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    I would just point out, since the Mayor raised it, that of course the Congestion Charge is not making anything like the money that TfL originally predicted. My third question is about the lottery game that is being set up specifically to fund the Olympics. One way, surely, that we might have been able to help Londoners a little more with their bills would have been if you had fought harder, Mr Mayor - and perhaps you still can; I am hoping that this could still be rectified - to dissuade, shall I say, Gordon Brown from lifting 12 pence...

  • Undertakings made to the British Olympic Committee (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    You have, indeed, as I see, made some provision for contingencies - just over £1 billion - but I understand that is actually the sum of money that is included in what the Government has put as its overall figure. Indeed, that contingency money appears to have already been, if you like, spent up in advance on security costs and transport costs. Therefore, I am not sure that is the sort of sum of money I am looking at. It was Rt Hon Richard Caborn, the Labour Minister for Sport and Tourism, who said only last year that it is...

  • Undertakings made to the British Olympic Committee (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Thank you. Can I just briefly say, on behalf of my group - and I would have liked to have said this to Lord Coe, himself - that we were extremely excited and thrilled at the success of our team in Athens, and we love to see all those medals coming back here. We very much hope to see a repeat of that success here in London in 2012. In order to get us there, however, I do believe that we have still to face some slightly more mundane issues, and today I would like to take the opportunity to...

  • Undertakings made to the British Olympic Committee (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Angie Bray
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2004
    Could you answer the question about the 12 pence on the tickets?