• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

In that case, can I say ' and you know I share your enthusiasm for the Games. I think they are the greatest thing that could happen to London. However, I do think you are sending out definite mixed messages. Not everyone in London shared your enthusiasm and indeed, you worked very hard to persuade Londoners it was a good thing. However, you did it on the basis that it was going to cost a maximum of 38 pence a week. You kept going about the cost of a Walnut Whip, if I remember correctly, for a maximum of 12...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

I hope following that, Mayor, you will be able to support the Assembly in the points it is making to Government about having the right to scrutinise the work of the ODA directly and not ask all the questions through you.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

That takes me to my final question which is that I believe that the Chair and Chief Executive of the ODA will be announced. I think the fact that is going to happen is in the public realm. Our job as an Assembly, alongside yourself is to hold those people to account and make sure they are responsible and have the skills to deliver these projects on time and on budget. It is rather inappropriate and premature and a fudging of its role for the Assembly to point at you as the responsible person. Politically you might be responsible but...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Would you share with me also an interest in developments at Heathrow Terminal Five? I visited that site last week and it is apparently an example of where a massive project to improve London's infrastructure will come in on time and on budget. Perhaps we can learn from that.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Correct, but it took Tessa Jowell to come clean on the fact that there is no cap for Londoners. You were wriggling around all over the place trying not to.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Is that it?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Maybe, but I would be interested to know how close we are getting to its limit of borrowing.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

Could we perhaps have a figure? I appreciate you cannot provide it now but it would be useful information because clearly if the LDA is now having to bump up its bridging loan by 100% or whatever in the next seven years, that is something that might take it close to its limit.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

I would be interested to know what the limit of the LDA's borrowing is.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 November 2005

have to say, to a lot of us it does sound as if the bid document is unravelling rather speedily. Frankly, it is not really worth the paper it is written on if you are saying `oh well, it was put together a few years back and things have changed.' These are the sort of predictions that should have been built into the bid document ' a realistic assessment of what the value of land might be if we were to win the Olympics. It really does sound as if the LDA assumed we were not going to win the...