• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

How close are we to actually accepting that is pretty much where we are going go or do you still think that the likelihood is that we will try and stick somewhere lower than that? It does seem in a sense that all of the discussions we have been having not only with the LDA but through the Mayor at Mayor's Question Time (MQT) that it does now seem to be becoming the accepted scenario.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

What you are saying by that actually is that indirectly there may be some changes as a result of having to re-jig your financial agenda?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Indeed, but would you forgive me for saying that the fact that there are still these question marks and that you do not seem to be able to know precisely where we are going does, I think, leave us feeling a little less reassured that you actually do have a clue about what these things are going be costing. It is one thing to start raising the issue of worst-case scenarios and then you answer, `Well, actually I do not know, it depends on this, it depends on that.' Are any of these things worth the paper they are written...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Thank you. Could we now ask you ' I quite accept you would not be able to provide it here and now ' could we perhaps be provided with a list of your reprioritising and what projects may find, indirectly ' if that is what you want to say ' that they have been affected? Is that possible to provide that information?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Has the worst-case scenario become now what you might call the scenario?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Just very briefly: can you possibly confirm something for me? You mentioned obviously the uplift to £1 billion and I was not quite sure whether that was an uplift from the £743 million to £1 billion or for just the £478 million.

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

The Chief Executive (Manny Lewis) referred to the decision that the management are making, that the Board had in considering these issues. Could you advise me of the expected costs for surveyors and for legal advice for the land acquisition programme?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

I think the word that jumped off the page at me was the word `reprioritisation'. What does that actually mean?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Fair enough, as far as it goes. Let me ask you, in the worst-case scenario, we have heard from the Mayor that he has basically given colleagues of mine hard guarantees that he says that it is not going to cost the council taxpayer a penny. Can I also get guarantees from the LDA, perhaps from your Chair this morning, that it is not going to cost, it is not going on the general precept, it is not going to come from the Treasury, which of course would mean that it was going to hit taxpayers, it is not going...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

You will be obviously providing us with that information when you have finally decided. How will that money, the interest, be repaid?