• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I do not think you were at the ODA at the time, but the last time the ODA representatives came to the Assembly's Environment Committee we were promised a sustainability plan across the whole of the Olympic family would be out soon. That is really what I want to hear about. When is that coming out, if ever? What are the main features?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

My concern is the real deprived communities; the ones that are just not being picked up because nobody knows who they are. The more visits I do the more convinced I become that what is on offer is not really going to help these people and those are the people that we all want to help more than anyone. I wondered if you would consider a couple of things. First of all I really identified a need for some pan-London funding where at the moment you are giving it to boroughs to dish out, which I understand, but there is...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Can I just ask how many London-based businesses have successfully won Olympic contracts to date?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Yes, just very briefly, my question is to Manny [Lewis] and it is a follow-up on the delivering of skills and employment legacy. Will the Boost programme, which is concentrated in the five Olympic boroughs, be rolled out across London, or is that a solely East End project?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Just thinking beyond the Olympics and who actually manages the Olympic Park, I think that is very critical for the legacy for a number of reasons. It will have state of the art sporting facilities, a park, waterways and I do hope it will still be democratically responsive to Londoners. I wondered if you have got any views from all three organisations, given that our colleagues from the local authorities have already expressed their views to some extent when I last raised this issue when they were here?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

The first question is to David Higgins. The Legacy Masterplan sets out the provisions for the Velodrome and cycling in general and we both know that both British Cycling and the user groups are not happy with this, and in fact are challenging it. I just wondered if you could perhaps update us on where you are with trying to find a way through this and trying to get an agreement that is acceptable to British Cycling and to the user groups. That is the first question. .

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

Lastly, can I just thank Sebastian [Coe] for his visit to my constituency and they were well received as he knows, but what he has left behind is big questions about when our young people going to be able to wear the 2012 badge like yourself and other city members! It seems a little bit odd, doesn't it? We talk about legacy in bricks and mortars and yet there is just the privileged few who are wandering around in their badges! I mean how is this? I have to say I gave my badge away when I got it at...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I am more than slightly concerned about the legacy, which you have all mentioned in your presentations. Somehow I am getting the feeling that in the original bid the legacy was a huge part of it, to regenerate a very poor area of London. There was this idea that the Olympics would actually fund the legacy, but it is starting to look (and I am well aware that when we are asking our questions we ask so many questions based on newspaper reports because we do not have the information from you) that it looks more now as if selling...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I have a question pertaining to my area in particular and that is about the canoe venue which is going to be very near Enfield and Waltham Forest in the Lee Valley Regional Park. There have been reports this week that because the original site was contaminated, a new site may be having to be looked at. My question with legacy is this; I know with the original proposals Lee Valley Regional Park were putting in extra money, so there would be a real legacy for the area in terms of children being able to participate and a learning loop...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

OK. Can I just go back to Hackney. Hackney Wick station is the closest station to the future employment use in that location. However there are currently no plans to provide a direct pedestrian link. Don't you think it will be a missed opportunity if we can't get a direct link from Hackney Wick to the Olympic Park? I do not understand why this is missing and there has been pressure put but we can't seem to get any answer.