• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

I do appreciate that most of the questions we want to ask you are probably subject to commercial confidentiality and so the last thing you want to do is announce the answers in public, but I will try one and maybe you can give us a thoughtful answer on this. It is about the IBC, the Media and Broadcast Centre. Is there a risk that it might not ultimately be built where it is proposed that it be built but that an opportunity might arise out of current other developments in the property market to relocate them within the Stratford...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

On the funding of the Olympic Village, you have said it is extremely unlikely that there will be a scenario where 100% will be coming from public funds through contingency, but what proportion are you looking at now in terms of the mix of different sources of funding for the Olympic Village?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Thank you for a very well presented report. I am a little concerned with the costing, whichever proportion is given over to the taxpayer of London and the UK Government tax collection from the people. You mentioned the credit crunch. This morning 400 points was taken off the Financial Times Index within the first hour of opening and that probably will not change for the foreseeable future. I come back to the aspect of the Stadium first. Mayor Boris has made it quite clear that the £500 million Stadium will, at the end of the Games, go back to 25,000...

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

John, are we facing the prospect that the Olympic Village might be completely funded by taxpayers?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

First of all can I congratulate you on the work you have done so far. I think you have done a spectacular job and long may it continue. I do not underestimate how very difficult it has been to get to this stage. I think it is very good and I am sure we are all impressed. My question is, in a worst case scenario how much of the contingency are you likely to have to use in order to rescue the financing of the Village and the Media Centre?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

You have already said that you would consider any form of funding. Have you considered a Sharia bond from the Islamic banks?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Gentlemen, in the current climate and with you being questioned so closely by everybody about costings, you must regret that remark by the previous Mayor about the costings for the bid being worked out on the back of an envelope? That is a question. You must regret it must you not, gentlemen? Does it make your job rather difficult?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Of course about 95% of the transport developments will be legacy so I think that will be very much welcomed by Londoners and certainly East Londoners. Of course we have had a time of turmoil and sometimes delay in reviews at City Hall since the election and I just wondered are there any transport development projects which have been caught up in the Mayor's transport review and delayed which are of significance to the Olympic transport plan?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

Richard Barnbrook (AM): Good morning, Lord Coe and Paul Deighton. Could you assure the Assembly here that all of the Olympic Games will be available on terrestrial television and not cherry-picked by subscribers on a pay-per-view service?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

This is not my attempt to get the gold medal for bean counting but you gave us an update on the sponsorship - Paul mentioned the ticket revenues - but the big cash cow is really TV revenue. My experience out in Beijing was certainly that the Chinese are hooked on Olympic gold and I dare say China Central Television (CCTV), Chinese national TV, will pay quite a big price for the rights in London 2012. In some ways we are fortunate to be in this position with two markets: North America and the Chinese market. Given they only paid...