• 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...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

I hesitate to come in but it is always nice to follow the flat earth wing of the Tory Party. Would you not agree that a different interpretation of the sponsorship issue is that the Olympics must grandstand British business if at all possible, and be used to highlight our success, and that we should celebrate that? Indeed, if we wanted to be pernickety about this we could highlight the fact that historically Cadbury, I think, come from a Quaker background and they actually have a very strong history in terms of ploughing the furrow of early social concern as...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 19 November 2008

Lord Coe, you mentioned sponsorship and your level-two agreement with Cadbury. Which of Cadbury's products support the healthy living agenda of the Olympics? Jenny Jones (AM): Good question!

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

Considering the increase in severity of the economic downturn and also the reduction in the value of the pound, can we be assured that there will be no more burden put on Londoners with regards an increase in the Council Tax to actually cover the Olympic project?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

I would just like to follow up from Mr Barnes' question. Have we identified a last safe moment where, if the project delays, in the lead up to the Olympics, would it be worth us saying actually, 'Let us delay the implementation of this until after the Olympics, rather than be in the middle of an implementation process during that very high profile period?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

Are there any operational implications for that, do you know?