• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Can I come to the sports legacy which has been touched on briefly by Gareth on the public subsidies. I am concerned that we do not have the Wimbledon effect which is we only play tennis for a few weeks after the Games and that is it. The role you play in that: firstly, what are you doing to help the Mayor achieve his 90% community use target for the Olympic Park in legacy?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

I wanted to look at the housing side of what you are doing and dig into the finances behind that will underpin the proportions between social affordable, owner occupied and, indeed, private rented possibly. When you were here last time we talked a lot about the remediation and the 60 centimetres and the impact of switching to the housing that you gave us the pictures for where there is a garden at the back. Can you update us on your financial modelling about the additional costs that are associated with remediation for family sized housing and how that impacts the...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

I am interested in the cost of running the sports venues once they are into legacy mode. I understand that the OPLC will be responsible for the Stadium, the Aquatics Centre, the mixed sports venue and the tower. Do you expect the sports venues will require public subsidy once they are in legacy mode to keep them afloat, or will they stand on their own two feet?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Can I touch on the sustainability assurance aspects. The Commission for a Sustainable 2012 does not just do the construction and the staging of the Games, it includes legacy, albeit that process is going to come to an end in about 2013. The first question, for the record, is do you welcome that scrutiny and will you cooperate fully with the Commission for a Sustainable 2012 for the legacy aspects?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Thank you, Chair. I have got a number of questions. Firstly, to go back to what John was talking about, on the people legacy. The Olympic Park set itself benchmarks, as you know, Margaret. I know that you have been aware of the programmes it implemented. The sadness is that those teams may now well disperse. I welcome what you are doing with schools. Would you agree with me that you need also to work with local colleges, in the way that the ODA did, and what you need to do is, in a sense, take the baton and do...

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Thank you, Chair. I would like to take a step back as we look towards legacy. We are all aware in this Chamber that the host boroughs of east London are some of the poorest locations in the capital. 70,000 unemployed adults are in the seven east London boroughs that neighbour the Olympic site. I am looking at the foundations of a legacy. How is it possible to truly call this a legacy when, at this moment in time, of the 5,381 employed people on the site, only 20% are from the five hosting boroughs and 48% are non-British? This...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

Could you tell me what role the OPLC will have in consulting the populated parts of the proposed MDC?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 19 January 2011

Roger Evans (AM): Can I welcome Mr Hendy's comments about the changing approach to disability access to buses. Certainly, back in that period 2001 to 2005, I was pointing out that wheelchair access was not, necessarily, the same thing as access for people with disabilities, and the removal of seats was far more harmful to people who needed a seat. Will that process now be changed for other public transport vehicles such as trains? We have seen the removal of seats in recent years and it is a big problem to the increasingly elderly population?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 19 January 2011

Darren Johnson (AM): A question to the Mayor. I share this ambition with you to get our buses as clean as possible in terms of engines. Was there a need to design a whole new hop on hop off bus just to get a much cleaner hybrid engine?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 19 January 2011

Valerie Shawcross (AM): Mr Mayor, the last time you and I discussed the new Routemaster I asked you about operational costs. I would have thought that question is even more urgent now. You are busily destaffing the Tube service. You are taking people out of ticket offices. 800 staff to come off the Underground service. The Routemaster. You have been quite clear that the back door, this additional hop on hop off door, could not be operated without the presence of an additional staff member. Do you have any more information to give us then about how much more it...