• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Nicky Gavron AM: Thank you. Good morning, Peter and David. I want to ask a question about the convergence framework and the target that was set for it. To give a bit of context - and the first question is really addressed to Peter - you were there Peter when we were all thinking about the bid for the Olympics. The primary driver was to use it as a catalyst to regenerate inner east London where we had the biggest concentration of multiply deprived communities in the whole of Western Europe. We were haunted by the fact - and you...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Joanne McCartney AM: My question is firstly to Peter. It is about accessibility in the Park. You have come along as Chair at a time of heightened national security. Has that had any impact on accessibility? Will the Park be seen as a welcoming place to attend?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I would like to ask Sir Peter. As Chair of the LLDC, you will take direction from the Mayor that you may not always agree with. You were the Commissioner of TfL at the time of the Garden Bridge fiasco. What lessons have you learned from the mistakes made at that time?

• Question by: Unmesh Desai
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Unmesh Desai AM: I was hoping to raise this earlier, Chair, but I will raise it anyway. It relates to a comment made by Assembly Member Andrew Boff. I do not want to get into a party-political spat but, following advice I received from the Secretariat, I have no choice but to put my question to you. You cannot speak for Newham Council, obviously, but Newham partners with LLDC E20. Is it your understanding that the money Newham has put into E20 is a loan

• Question by: Leonie Cooper
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Leonie Cooper AM: Thank you very much, Chair. I wanted to ask you about progress on dealing with the quite catastrophically large gender pay gap. You had an action plan with a series of 15 different actions, all of which, apart from one, were to be completed before the date of this meeting. I wondered if you could tell us about progress and whether you have completed all of those actions.

• Question by: Onkar Sahota
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Dr Onkar Sahota AM: We have seen from the Corporate Performance Report that the LLDC views increased construction costs in London due to Brexit as one of its key risks. Is the LLDC resilient to Brexit?

• Question by: Peter Whittle
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Peter Whittle AM: Thank you, Chair. David, good morning. I notice that one of the planks of the whole development is going to be the Cultural and Education District. This is absolutely to do with the long-term finances of the whole project. I notice that apparently for the construction costs originally, for example, for the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), you were looking at philanthropic donation to cover it. That has been abandoned and now you are going to underwrite it. According to your draft budget submission it is now assumed the museum building development will be repaid through a...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Andrew Boff AM: How could something be described as ‘sustainable’ when London taxpayers will have to keep propping you up every year and you cannot tell us when that is going to stop? How is that sustainable?

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Gareth Bacon AM: Thank you, Chair. I will start by echoing something you said earlier on, David, and it was echoed by Sir Peter. As a regeneration project, it has to be acknowledged that it is successful. Compared to any other Olympic city in the past, what has happened in London is transformationally better than anywhere else. That said, of course, there are some caveats to that and the biggest running sore is the Stadium. I am going to go back over a couple of the points that have been covered by other Members, just to try to get more...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 02 November 2017

Len Duvall AM: Can we move on to some of the other contracts? We might include West Ham. In one of the LLDC documents - it might be in your annual report - you talk about “onerous contracts”. David Goldstone CBE (Chief Executive, London Legacy Development Corporation): Yes. Len Duvall AM: Are the onerous contracts that we are referring to the agreements with tenants such as West Ham and UK Athletics? Also, you have other contracts on catering, as well as the E20 management. You do not call it that. There is probably a technical term--