• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

I am pleased with what you said about the registering of volunteers. I know that New York and some of the continental bids are perhaps a little ahead of us, so it is good to know where we are catching up. I wanted to press you a little harder. At the beginning you talked about getting the balance right between a winning bid and a bid that spreads the benefits around London and so forth. I am optimistic that is not a question of trading one off against the other. You said that part of the winning was about involving...

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

My question, Mr Mayor, is not about the minority of Londoners who enjoy football, but it is about how many gleaming stadia we can cope with in London.

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

I do not think the residents of Birmingham consider it a National Stadium, do they, Lord Harris? Chair, are we not also building a new stadium that is going up after much argy-bargy at Islington for Arsenal Football Club? There is talk about new stadia for Tottenham and other clubs. Do you see stadium overload in London? Do you not see that there is an issue where we have got gleaming new stadia cheek by jowl with schools and hospitals and other facilities in London that are in urgent need of renovation?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

Chair, as you will know, we were in Brent Town Hall last night. From there you can see the so-called National Stadium at Wembley.

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

So you will publish the LDA papers "

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

You referred to adjustment in terms of future projects. Does that mean future projects will be delayed?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

Excuse me, but most of the Board papers from the LDA are stamped `confidential" and that is half the problem. Other members around this table are nodding.

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

We accept totally the case for the Lower Lea Valley and all the rest of it. All we are asking quite simply is what are these `adjustments `and `indicative funding" and all the other terminology and has anything actually been delayed or lost out because this has greater priority. That is all; it is quite simple; there is no need to hide it.