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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Well, clearly you cannot be absolutely open. I would suggest that you would need to set down deadlines and rules by which other people need to work. If in 2011 they come to you and say, `we need to redesign it as a media centre' that is probably not very helpful.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Can I interrupt you on the basis that I have limited time whereas you have six full years, to the effect that if we take the broadcast centre as an example, then it might have been an earlier aspiration that it be a light industrial use at the end but people are now talking about perhaps higher tech use of media cities, a bit like other major cities in the world. How open are you to changes such as that and how much of a problem for you does that represent?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

So I take it from that, we can do this, we can do that and then you said that we are developing these packs

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Can I move on to another part of this, and I guess we have touched on it a little in the context of food, which is about supplier chains and making sure that the Olympics, as far as possible, encourage local businesses across the whole of London and the South East to compete for work at the Olympics, but also be strengthened by them into the future. Can you tell us a little bit about the work you are doing on that? For example, I have been lobbied - I never thought of these people before - by horticulturists who...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I am not trying to put you on the spot. You are the best witness we have got available.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Very briefly then, a final supplementary. I am a friendly questioner, I think, but I would say your answers are fairly good and aspirational, talking in outline, but a bit thin on detail. When will you be able to tell us a little bit more about some of these specific outputs and how you are going to make some of them leave the strongest possible legacy?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I just wanted to ask a question about the physical legacy on the Olympic site. You mentioned earlier that there would be state-of-the-art Paralympic facilities in Waltham Forest, which is great and something we could do with in London, but it appears to be being done at the cost of some playing fields being lost, cricket pitches and football pitches. I am not sure how that is being accommodated. What I really want is some reinstatement of those facilities for local people in the locality. I have been approached by a number of people - the local sporting community and...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I agree completely over the decision-making. Do you have the power of veto over a decision made by the ODA?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Let us come back to the legacy issues and the day to day decision-making that is going on because one of the areas that we have had interesting discussions about is how those decisions are made. So, how involved are you in the day-to-day decision-making around the position of creating the legacy for the Games?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I just wanted to return to the comment you made about having to train more journalists. You used this as an example. The bid document talked throughout about being inclusive and I was wondering, are you going to have specific targets to include people with disabilities in the training, rather than just able-bodied people, and if you do have targets, are you going to be able to put in a process to monitor those targets to make sure they are being met?