• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Exactly, so can I then put an even more important issue and ask you what pressure you are putting on the Government and Department of Transport to speed up the decision to go ahead with Crossrail 1?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

We have actually got to think about the majority of Londoners, not just those who own their own homes and can let them if they live in a convenient place. What will be the legacy for Londoners who do not own their own homes, who are perhaps vulnerable and cannot see that they will get anything out of this at all?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Well I am obviously not supporting you on that. The Greens have got a real problem with this because we are very sceptical that it can be as environmentally sustainable as we would like it to be. There also has to be a legacy for Londoners. If you are going to put the Council Tax up by 20% ?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

The British Olympic Committee has this idea about building a new road. I am sure they have told you about that. Is that something you would currently support?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Sydney marketed itself as the greenest Olympics ever, and it is possible that London could market this Olympics as an eco-Olympics, yet greener. What advice would you give to Barbara Cassani about how to make sure that this is the greenest possible bid? Who are you going to include? Are you going to include organisations like Friends of the Earth?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

I will be sitting there. How do you ensure that this Olympic Bid is not just going to be a cover for damaging development. Already in terms of your World City aspirations, we have been told that Londoners must swallow airport expansion, new road building and a huge amount of new office accommodation in central London and so on. How do we ensure this is not just a cover for damaging development?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

But in terms of public access rather than athletes and their teams, would you be looking at a car-free Olympics?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Perhaps at this early stage I could mention the new Sutton Arena to the Mayor which will offer excellent facilities. I am sure other Boroughs have very good facilities, which may not be up to Olympic standard but certainly could be locked into an offer for training facilities for teams and so on. That is a way to get Boroughs involved.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Can I say that the Liberal Democrat group on this Assembly have always been enthusiastic supporters of the London bid. Therefore, I do very much welcome the Mayor's positive approach to an Assembly input to this. Certainly, we will play our part our part in that. My experience is that where there is much less enthusiasm for the London bid is in some of the South and West London Boroughs particularly, who do not yet see what it is in for them. I wonder what the Mayor can do both to convince them that there is something in it for...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

): I think it is to do with how you actually feed the information and check them.