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Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [17]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
Have you spoken to Lord James and his team?

Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [16]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
It is the building site and building materials which clearly are the major concern.

Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [15]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
Since the award of the Games, international events have clearly impacted upon a significant element of the budget which is the security aspect of it. Most of us have concentrated on the issue of the security for the period of the Games itself, to ensure that London, the athletes and the Games are safe. However, we now have already entered into the build phase. I was intimately involved in the building of T5 (Terminal 5) and I recognise the security that was involved in protecting that site. What steps have you taken to protect the site down at the Olympic...

Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [14]

  • Question by: Damian Hockney
  • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
So if that £500 million contingency can last up to the end of next year, then how much more of the overall contingency budget that the Government has aside, which has been the cause of so much controversy, do you think you will need?

Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [13]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
We appreciate that, but it is all public money for security?

Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [12]

  • Question by: Brian Coleman
  • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
But then you add the £600 million on top and you get £1,400 million?

Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [11]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
Yes, but on top of that is the £600 million for the Metropolitan Police?

Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [10]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
So, at this moment, the total budgeting costs for security are approximately £1.4 billion then, if one conflates the two figures?

Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [9]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
): I am grateful for that. When we looked at past history, things like Wembley and the Dome, one thing which tended to cause further increases in budgets was, regrettably, elements of fraud, sometimes sub-contractor fraud, and a lack of control over sub-contractor costs. What lessons have we learnt? What systems are being put in place to bear down upon that in a way which did not happen, perhaps, in some of those other projects?

Potential for Further Budget Increases (Supplementary) [8]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 25 April 2007
How great is the budget for this security process, during the build phase of the building site?
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