• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

The last time we discussed this you were very keen to point out that it was a Greenwich Council initiative rather than something involving TfL. Some of the work that Greenwich Council did on their original consultation was asking people if they would consider a system where paying to enter Greenwich would also count towards paying to enter the central Congestion Charge zone as well, implying some amount of joint working between Transport for London and Greenwich. Is that still something that is on the drawing board?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Not with the drilling down into these projects; that is just an overall process, we checked that. This is about the specific projects. There is no oversight, there are no proper outputs worked out; the thing is a bit of a shambles. Somebody has to do this. We should not be doing it. Now you are criticising us for trying to put it right.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Of these six projects, separately? To make clear to everybody, to the public, that we are not just throwing money, we do not know what the outputs are and we do not have any measure throughout.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

We have tried for a year to get this information and have failed to get it. The reason why we have had to put it through a proper audit is because every time we try to get it we are then told - this is what we were told on Monday - 'We do not agree with the conclusions because you do not have all the information'. Therefore our question is, 'Why did you not provide us with the information?'. 'Well, we will do it to an auditor'. That is like madness.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

I am astonished by your response, I have to say, as indeed I was astonished by the report. If you read the report or listened to what Manny Lewis [Chief Executive, LDA] said when he came to see us the other day, he said the opposite of what you just said. You said that the LDA told us we will not find anything in an audit that we do not already know. The LDA said the opposite. They said they had failed to supply us with the information that we needed to complete our report. That is what they said...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Mayor, that has nothing to do with monitoring and keeping the process going throughout. Yes, they were inherited projects, but it is clear from all of this that there is no proper oversight. All I am saying to you is: will you not undertake to do that proper audit into these six projects which we, as the scrutiny body, have found wanting so enormously. A cloud hangs over the LDA as long as you do not do that.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

I asked the LDA on Monday when they came in, 'Will you do this work?' We do not want to have to spend the money; we are a scrutiny body which holds others to account. We do not want to have to put the problems at the LDA right. That is not our role. However, we are having to do that now and we are having to spend that £50,000 because when I asked Manny Lewis he would not agree to do an audit. He said, 'We are looking into it'. He made some particular issue but he did not...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Mayor, you have just accused us of spending £15,000; you are outraged and appalled that we should spend £15,000 to look at something which was clearly unacceptable. We gave the LDA, back in April, half a dozen specific areas on which we wanted them to supply information to Deloitte to enable us to then answer those questions. I think Dee Doocey, who is Chair of the Assembly's Economic Development, Culture, Sport and Tourism Committee, will agree with me: we did not get the information and Deloitte did not get the information.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Are you happy with that report then, from our Committee?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 November 2007

Can I ask if you will also take up with the Olympic Board the fact that it is totally unnecessary for sponsors and our federation officials and Olympic partners to travel in chauffeur-driven limousines; they can also go on public transport. It is not just the IOC.