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Experience (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: Victoria Borwick
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Changing back to a different topic in view of some of the questions we have just had - and I am very conscious that our session this morning is time-limited, as you know - I do want to highlight in this area of what is different or what is not different the tremendous sense of participation you gave to the volunteers and to the Games Makers. I know that as you close there will be many Games Makers who think that possibly their options of other things they are going to do are going to finish. However, I know even...

Experience (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Joanne McCartney
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Thank you. I wanted to ask you particularly about the sporting legacy and particularly school children. As you said, that is the one thing that you perhaps would have done differently with

Affordable Ticket Guarantees (Supplementary) [6]

  • Question by: Jenny Jones
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Thank you. Can I just clarify? You are going to put all the raw data into London Datastore. Is that right?

Affordable Ticket Guarantees (Supplementary) [5]

  • Question by: Andrew Boff
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Lord Deighton, what we had asked for in our meeting back in March/April - I cannot remember when it was - what we had asked for and what we received an assurance about was that we would get the data immediately after the Olympics; it would be released to us and that we would be able to make judgments about the allocations. What we received was an embargoed set of aggregated data, not the raw data that we wanted. We received an embargoed set of aggregated data one week before this meeting, embargoed until yesterday, and we get the breakdown...

Affordable Ticket Guarantees (Supplementary) [4]

  • Question by: Nicky Gavron
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
This is not in any way to diminish what I think is your spectacular achievement, but it is just one story. My family got tickets for the Paralympics. We were unable to get any tickets for sessions at the Games that we wanted to go to. At the very last minute, at a pretty hefty price, we were able to go to the O2 to see the first Saturday - absolutely amazing men's gymnastics - but it was half empty. Why was that? This was the morning. It might have filled up in the afternoon, but in the morning.

Affordable Ticket Guarantees (Supplementary) [3]

  • Question by: John Biggs
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Right, but once you take the football out, which is a rather special sort of event, the profile is a bit less generous to the lowest type of tickets.

Affordable Ticket Guarantees (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: Richard Tracey
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Thank you, madam. There is no doubt, we all agree what a phenomenal event it was, well, the two events, the Olympics and the Paralympics. It seems to me rather unfortunate that this is the one thing that seems to be besmirching the phenomenal record because it is being commented on in both the broadcast media and in the written media. There is one thing that I do not quite understand. There was a Twitter feed - I think it was called @2012TicketAlert - which could have directed people to your website when you did have unsold tickets. Is it...

Affordable Ticket Guarantees (Supplementary) [1]

  • Question by: Murad Qureshi
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Thank you, Chair. I should say I was singularly unsuccessful in getting any tickets from the LOCOG website for the simple reason that I used a Visa card and had to go somewhere else, but that is not the gripe I am raising. I think there is a concern about how many tickets the corporate sponsors got on the blue ribbon events. Could you inform us how many they did get during the blue ribbon events, given that the financial contribution from them was actually smaller than that made by council taxpayers and general taxpayers?

Vision for the LLDC (Supplementary) [3]

  • Question by: Navin Shah
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Navin Shah (AM): I am actually thankful to Assembly Member Evans because he has picked up the issue I was going to raise about the wider benefits to Londoners throughout, in terms of lasting benefits with the legacy planning. May I please, Mr Mayor, ask you to work on a clear action plan to indicate how all Londoners will benefit, like the residents we are hearing for Mr Evans and like residents in the boroughs that I represent. Very clearly, there is an expectation and rightly so that the benefits should not be confined to just the whole six boroughs...

Vision for the LLDC (Supplementary) [2]

  • Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
  • Meeting date: 14 November 2012
Jennette Arnold (AM): Yes, thank you. My line of questioning to both you gentlemen is about the media and broadcast centres and about, if you like, the haste and the urgency that we have in this area about getting jobs and investment going in as soon as possible. We do not want to repeat the saga of the Stadium. So it is an answer from both of you. Can you confirm that in January 2013 iCity will be confirmed as the consortia for the legacy project of the media and broadcast centres?
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