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

Yes, and we accept that. In a sense I am being taken around the round-about here, am I not?

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

So 25% of your future funding, which would have gone to other communities, has been adjusted to the Olympics?

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

Do you have a figure for the size of the adjustment?

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

My apologies. Can you explain?

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

So, if I get the terminology right, there has been indicative funding for various projects, which are now not getting indicative funding because it is going to the Olympics. That is how I understand it.

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

So could we be provided with a list of the broad and notional projects which encompass the 25% of LDA future possible spend which might have been included if the Olympics were not? Would that be possible?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

I take that, but I am interested in looking at ways in which the wider London community through its many strengths such as the diversity of London, the aspirations of struggling communities in London, can be built into this bid, both to give Londoners a buy-in to it and to make it an attractive bid to the IOC.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

But I see this as being possibly an integral and an attractive part of the bid.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

I am interested in looking at ways in which my constituents can buy in to the Games. Many of them will probably not be able to go to the Games because they will not be able to afford it, or they will seem rather remote to them even though they might live next to the Olympics. Clearly the regeneration vision is part of that. My questions are about employment and contracts and how they can link into the prosperity of communities in London which are particularly disengaged. An attractive idea would be for the Olympics to have as part of...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003