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

Could you tell me what they were when we put in the bid in 2004?

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

We would not have allowed you to.

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

My final point is the money that you are going to give back from this wonderful sale of land. Heaven knows how much this land is going to bring in! Both you and Neale Coleman are on record as saying it is going to pay for the ODA borrowing, it is going to pay for any cost overruns, it is going to pay the £10 million a year that it is going to cost to run the Olympic Park, and now you are saying it is going to repay the additional £685 million that you are siphoning off from the...

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

I am now really concerned about your ability to understand figures, clearly there is no question there is an increase in the core costs of £2.3 billion.I am now really concerned about your ability to understand figures, clearly there is no question there is an increase in the core costs of £2.3 billion.

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

The fact is you did not have access to the land and the costs have gone up, so it is quite clear that your costings were worthless. Would you agree with what Richard Caborn said just last weekend when he admitted to Jeremy Paxman that in fact it had been a budget merely designed to win the bid?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 21 March 2007

It is therefore not accurate to say that Londoners will not be paying for the Olympics for longer than ten years. The debt incurred will still be being paid for up to 2020.

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

Sorry, Mr Mayor, they do not bring the two together. I have read it four times.

• 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!