• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Would that apply to what I would term project grants and contracts?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Can I say, I agree with that principle but can I just point out that perhaps there may be some problems in as much as there are multiple funding streams with multiple accountabilities for the different sources of that money and there are going to be multiple expenders of those streams? It is becoming quite a complex but a considerably coherent structure. Do you think it would be appropriate to have at the level of the Olympic Board, at the top level oversight, somebody who has a view of the coherence of the auditing and financial control system across the...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

We all want a successful Games and obviously we all want an efficient and value-for-money Games, so can I just ask you a little bit more about the financial control processes and the auditing, at two levels? Firstly, as I understand it ' and correct me if I am wrong ' the precept that the GLA will be collecting towards the Olympic project, possibly up to £600 million, and that would be financially accounted for by the GLA's Finance department. Can you tell us a bit more about how deep that accountability will be and whether or not there is...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Are all grants, projects and contracts subject to competitive tender?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

What would you do where there was potential conflict of interest, say by someone who worked closely with the Mayor but also had an outside interest, which was a preferred bidder?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

I am asking what they are.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

How many of those do you realistically expect to go to what are currently unskilled, untrained, unemployed youth in the five boroughs?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Did I hear you say that there are 7,500 construction jobs within the Olympic site?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

Are you saying that the boroughs are going to do all of this and there is not much financial support ' moral support but no financial support ' from the LDA?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 07 December 2005

I just wondered very briefly whether you had any plans to involve young people in the boroughs which will be hosting sporting events during the Olympic year, in particular I was thinking of Merton of course, where the All England Lawn Tennis Club is very much involved with tennis. Have you got any plans to involve young people, perhaps at a later date, to get them into sport or also to get them working at the time of the event?