• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Is there an element of you saying, `Well if some of this expansion does not take place, then it is not that critical because there is already a reasonable transport network'? Is that how I take that?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

How will you manage customer expectations if in fact we do fall short on delivering some of the expansion plans, such as the North London railway, East London Line extension? People feel that these are essential in order to get to and from the Games, particularly as large numbers of people will be travelling right across London to get there.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

While we are on sustainable design standards, can you tell us anything more about water demand? The bid document talked about reducing water demand through sustainable management of rain and waste water. This is obviously a very topical issue now and will continue to be so through 2012.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

I will give you another example. You mentioned, for example, procurement standards. One of the things that could make it very sustainable, taking an issue you brought out, the transportation of goods and services into the site, is the use of the canals and the rivers, as co-Chair of the London Waterways Commission, is something we want to see. It would be a very useful benefit to the freight industry. I do not hear much on where the thinking has been going on that front.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Renewable energy is obviously one part of the green legacy. I remember a lot of the hard sell was that this was going to be the greenest Olympics ever. One of the things I am struck by is that you do not appear to have an environmental sustainability champion on the board. Is that an omission, and how are you addressing that along with the other aspects of environmental concerns that you are going to be addressing during the delivery of the Olympics?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

In terms of renewable energy, the preferred standard in the Mayor's guidance that major developments should be zero carbon emissions, which goes considerably higher than was in the original bid proposal. Is there an opportunity, with the new planning permission coming forward, to actually increase the renewable component in some of the developments?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Will the aim be to try and link the targets established in the supplementary guidance?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Welcome David. I speak as the Assembly Member for Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest. My question follows on from what you just said about the changes to the Masterplan. Thank you for communicating those changes in the quick and efficient way that you did. Can you assure us that final is final and that we can now settle down and work to the changes that we now know of?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Welcome. I suppose I should declare that I am a Board Member and Deputy Chairman of the London Development Agency, and also the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation. I suppose I should, given the question I am about to ask, declare that I did not apply to be a member of the Board of the Olympic Delivery Authority, but I do notice that there are no local democratically accountable representatives on that board. I am wondering if you would comment on how you are going to make certain the board safeguards those local accountability interests. Brian Coleman (Chairman): Perhaps, Mr...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Due to the positive nature of those changes, it is very well to communicate them [but] can you again assure us about your communication strategy briefly, should there be any changes which may arise because of some negative impact that you find?