• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You have covered the land cost assumptions. You have clearly seen the patterns on land cost movement. I just want to be clear about the assumptions you are making on wages and materials?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You have admitted that the ODA has not gone as far as you would have ideally liked in terms of sustainability targets. You said that the budget would be a key feature in terms of how ambitious the Games could be in delivering sustainability. Do you feel, now the budget has been published, it is going to deliver a green Games at the top end of your ambitions?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You should have been an illusionist!

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You have made the point a few times that the Government is picking up this tab but, surely, is there not a case that the IOC should pick this up, For the simple reason we have always had a terrorist threat with Olympics? We had the events of Munich 1972. If the cities do not make money, the IOC certainly will do through the TV deals, and I dare say the biggest TV deal will probably be the Olympics straight after the Chinese Olympics in Beijing, given there will be a 30% increase in the TV audiences. LOCOG (London Organising...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Thank you, Chair. I apologise for being late but, topically, I was chairing a meeting looking at the development opportunities for land in the Thames Gateway. That leads directly into my question which is that I assume the thrust of debate has been, quite rightly, that Members want to ensure that Londoners get the best possible deal out of the Olympics and pay as little as possible of the additional costs. Would you agree with me that there is an equal risk, which is that if we are not carefully managing the budget for the Olympics, we may take so...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Just for the record, would you finally at last agree with us, Mr Livingstone, that the original bid document and the costings in it were in fact completely worthless?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

You say this as though the Government is getting some people some money. The Government is using tax payers' money in order to fund this. That is the difference.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

The Government says that though.

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

So we will see an improvement in those targets that you expressed disappointment at a month ago?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

Absolutely!