• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Can I interrupt you on the basis that I have limited time whereas you have six full years, to the effect that if we take the broadcast centre as an example, then it might have been an earlier aspiration that it be a light industrial use at the end but people are now talking about perhaps higher tech use of media cities, a bit like other major cities in the world. How open are you to changes such as that and how much of a problem for you does that represent?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Well, clearly you cannot be absolutely open. I would suggest that you would need to set down deadlines and rules by which other people need to work. If in 2011 they come to you and say, `we need to redesign it as a media centre' that is probably not very helpful.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

As far as you are aware?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Can you just help me; Is there any timeframe put on that or not?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

If I was a cynic I would say that is all good aspirational stuff but a bit light on detail. It could be viewed as aspirational stuff but could I just explore it a bit. If we look at, say, the end use of the venue, and you have a deadline of 2012, and the cost of an end use and the risks associated with maybe time over-runs on an end use, which is better suited for legacy than for the short period of the Games poses a problem for you because it may, in terms of risk management, present...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

I think that has been very positive and I am grateful for those answers. I was surprised to see something in the sports section of the Daily Telegraph the other week which seemed to suggest that the Mayor had undertaken to underwrite losses of some £10 million a year on the Olympic Park after 2012. I was surprised to see that and I wondered if you could shed any light on where that comes from and where we are about the future financing of those issues? All of us obviously want to see the maximum use and the maximum public...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Has there come a conflict between the different parties yet and if so, how has that been resolved?

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

London's presentation in Singapore was centred around the inspiration of today's children and future children to take up sport, pass the baton on to the next generation and I think you said London's bid stood out because of this. You talked earlier about you, in effect, having to do the knitting together. It is fine to talk about it but how do you actually do that?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Yes, indeed. Now obviously we want to try it. As you say, the key word is `if', so I am just interested for the future as to what we can do to try and make sure, as far as possible, there are not losses of those kind.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 October 2006

Okay. So you are happy for me to send you questions afterwards?