• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

I see. Finally, on the question of ownership and existence after the Games have finished, as far as you are concerned, the ODA will have no say in legacy at all?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Can I welcome you, Mr Higgins, both from myself and my colleagues in the Conservative Group. The ODA has been described as the people who build the stage and the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) puts on the show. I just wonder if you can help me a little more in terms of what overlap you envisage in terms of operational work, of any kind, or budgets?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Well I had always known that John Biggs was a big cheese of the local community, it is quite clear he sees himself as the Big Mac of the local community. This question, Mr Higgins, I am raising because you described to my colleague Bob Neill the crossovers between yourselves, LOCOG, and the LDA. I am really concerned that the crossovers should always be crossovers, rather than areas of conflict. I am particularly interested in the relationship between yourselves and the LDA, particularly as you have already told us this morning that they are responsible for the land assembly as...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

You have told us that you are not going to exist, you think, immediately after the Games. You think it is going to wind up, so that freehold which you have will be transferred to whom?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Of these 10 points, which do you think are at the greatest risk of possibly, not going wrong, but where there may be problems in the coming six to nine months, where you may have to take action?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

I am grateful to hear that, that is reassuring. I wonder if you had had the chance to read the report that David James did on the delivery of the Dome?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Thank you; that is helpful. You highlight the importance of the project delivery there. Which of the members of your Board will be taking responsibility, apart from yourself, for project management issues?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

What steps are going to be taken, and who is going to be taking the lead, in getting a real buy-in from the private sector? Ultimately we have got quite a lot of people from the public sector, distinguished people on the Board, but it is the private sector that ultimately will deliver this.

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

No example, then, of an issue where you are presented with such a conflict?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

One further question. That is as far as we can go, I guess. Would it not have been better if the Mayor had not answered that the tests found they were not suffering from the fault originally identified, because of course that is entirely misleading given what we were also hearing from the manufacturer at the same time? That is the sort of problem about style that I come back to. It would have been so much better if he had been able to recognise there was a problem, it was being looked at, and it was an ongoing situation...