• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Right. OK. I am going to give you an example then. The Olympics, in security terms, needs to take a number of decisions to secure a site for the safety of the Olympics in the events that go on. Where is the decision post-Olympics? We have not got a security issue, we have some iconic buildings which I hope are part of the legacy, but we would probably want to open up that site to people in a way of ongoing normalisation in security terms. How do we know who is doing the spec? Decisions are being taken now by...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

And will that come with the other partners who have some stake, so we get one definitive view of where we are on legacy or are we going to have Bill and Ben back like we had yesterday, telling us that they are not responsible for it, `not me guv' and it is someone else's? I think we need to know.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Where do those decisions take place or discussions take place so we can get to understand that, because we want the short-term to work well, actually the run-up to the Games, the delivery of the Games and then what arises out of the Games, you are going to be responsible for that bit. Right. OK. So where do the discussions take them and how do you use your influencing role to secure that long-term vision? The problem I have is, I think you are right about the ODA having some responsibility for it, or LOCOG in some ways has its...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Would you expect directors of dormant companies which had a relationship with this building to so declare it?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

As you are aware, I have been looking at the grant procedures of the LDA for some months and I have certainly identified about 20 companies that are dormant that you have given money to. I will not read out the list now, but I can certainly supply that to you.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

No, I am asking about the procedures to ensure that your accounting procedures, your checking procedures, are right.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Are you confident that procedures are in place to ensure that once funding has been granted, it is actually applied appropriately and is monitored, so that money is applied in accordance with the LDA grant process, or the conditions of the grant?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Well, I am talking about a grant the LDA makes to strange organisations.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

OK, can I ask the question another way then? Would you give a grant to a company which is effectively not trading because it has got no business of any size? Would you give it to such an organisation which could hardly be called a company?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 October 2006

Actually `dormant' I understand means that a company is not trading and that is not the same definition which you have just used. Not trading means you are not trading.