• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Can I ask you about the business community? After all, they are going to be the prime people who are going to really reap the benefit from the Olympics. How much are you doing, and if you could just tell us what exactly you are doing, to get them to increase their contribution that they are going to make to the Games? I am just particularly concerned that in a throw-away remark to Angie (Bray) just now, you said that, with the contribution from the business community, it would be over £5 billion, but since the budget is already £4.875...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

That is not the same as a generous handout.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

That you would do your job as the Mayor of London and make sure that any money coming back goes straight to London. That was it.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

I have to say, I am not quite sure where your latest figures have gone, because clearly the 12% on the expected amount that the Olympic lottery is going to raise is much closer to £350 million, unless you are suggesting that the ticket sales are not going to be as successful as they were originally deemed to be. Can I also ask you to reassure us that, were you to be successful in pressing for that extra money from the Chancellor, you would also be fighting hard to ensure that that money actually went to help Londoners who are...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Well, that is certainly an improvement on the answer you gave me on this very question last time round, when you attempted to say that there was no need for the Government to be any more generous than it already had been, because it was so good to London on so many occasions that you really did not see the point in pressing the case. I appreciate the fact that you have now swung round to our point of view on this. It is worth just reminding ourselves, is it not, that the Chancellor has already decided to return the...

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Would you not agree that this article is hardly objective, and actually is grossly offensive to the large numbers of Jewish people that live in London?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Unbelievable, a whole catalogue today of things that you do not check.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Another thing you never check.

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Can I seek what advice you obtained before you allowed this article to go forward in The Londoner.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 17 November 2004

Mayor, finally, just very, very briefly ' I will not go on about this too much ' but would you not agree in future, perhaps, to ' I do not know ' show this article to somebody else, and that perhaps a bit more of it should be about the Trade Fair? There is only one bit ' the last bit ' that says the Trade Fair is at the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce. The rest, well, you only have to read it. I have it in front of me.