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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

To cut this down to a more blunt political point then, there is a risk in the Olympics that if the relationship with the LSCs is not amended or revised or improved in a way that the Mayor is suggesting it should be, then the GLA's view is there is a risk to the Olympics and the delivery of training as part of that?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

That clearly contradicts with what the Mayor has had to say. The reality is that the costs are going up beyond those expected and the Mayor has quite openly said to us, on the record, that it is basically a seven-year bridging loan that we are having here and we are acquiring additional property in order to fund the increased costs. Is it not a fact here that you are becoming a property speculator in order to fund the Games?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Can I just take you back to what the Mayor said at the last Mayor's Question Time, where he said, on the record, that this was precisely the reason why the land increase was taking place? Can I just tell you what he said? `We have increased the size of the land we are acquiring by about 25%' ' you are now saying it is 29%, so clearly the briefing to the Mayor was not quite correct - and basically he has done it so that the land could be sold later on at a greater profit.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Yes, was that a big `yes'?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Mr Mayor, I am looking at the cultural legacy from the Olympics. Funding for arts and culture in London is already hard pressed, as you know, especially that that is dished out through the Association of London Government (ALG) and the London boroughs. How are we going to fund the cultural legacy? Is that going to be to the disadvantage of arts organisations which are currently funded from the public sector?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I must ask you about East Marsh. I cannot meet you without asking this question. Sally Hamwee (Chair): If it is about legacy. Jennette Arnold (AM): It is about legacy. Can you, once again, assure the people of Hackney that East Marsh will be restored to parkland after the Olympic Games? Are you able to give a timescale for this and for the further improvements that have been promised, specifically, a land bridge, improved football facilities, and replacement land for the Arena Fields?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

): I am extremely sorry, Mr Mayor, for you to suggest that people who are fighting for their own interests are behaving politically. They are behaving sensibly, in the way I suspect that you would have done, if you were in that position. I have in front of me a letter from the LDA, dated 2 September, on this question of professional costs which are likely to be incurred with regard to business relocation. This letter tells me that you actually estimate that you will be spending £5 million on professional fees relating to businesses' location. As a matter of...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

When you say, `in exactly the same way,' the appeal initially, therefore, from a decision of the ODA, will go to the inspector and then to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM). Is that how it will work?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Just on that point about the sustainability issues within the procurement document: will contracts be independently appraised before they are let, say, by the London Sustainable Development Commission (LSDC) or something like that?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Just on this code, the very welcome offer: does it currently cover sustainable development issues and the other sorts of issues around wages, labour rights, and so forth?