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• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

What sort of risk assessments will you be putting in these various transport upgrades to try to assess where any weaknesses might occur?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

What sort of risk assessments will you be putting in these various transport upgrades to try to assess where any weaknesses might occur?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Thank you. Would you regard the transport plans as being ambitious? In the scheme of the whole project, I am trying to gauge if you feel that transport is more perhaps at risk than other aspects.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Good. When the two reports come out in the next few days that you mentioned, will they include things like what targets are going to be put in place, and how these targets are going to be monitored, and will you commit to publishing how you are getting on with the targets? Will you publish what the targets are and what you are achieving on a regular basis?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Can I ask if you have talked to Atlanta? I understand Atlanta was particularly good at setting targets for black and minority ethnic (BME) businesses and for people with disabilities and for women. What sort of discussions have you had with Atlanta, and have you picked up on any of the good practices that they have instituted?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Can I rephrase the question, in that case? Will you, as Chief Executive of the ODA, ensure that targets are put in place, that those targets are strictly monitored, and that we as an Assembly are given the figures as to whether or not you are keeping up with the targets at particular milestones?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Thank you. My final question is about delivery. A lot of the evidence we have got at scrutiny sessions here is that the LDA and the Learning and Skills Council as being very good at consulting and planning, but not so good on delivery. It is a plea to you to make sure that whoever you put ' whatever group you put together, make sure that you have got implementers rather than planners on that group. Otherwise it will just be talk for the sake of talk.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

I understand the point you made about the budget, and how it is a living, breathing, ongoing thing, however you must be working to some figure at the moment? Is that as it was in the Bid Book ' that was the three ' as you have now redefined it, so £3 billion - or has that increased as a result of the KPMG re-costings?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

Dee Doocey (AM): I understand all that. Is it the case at this moment that you think additional funding is required, or are you content, at this moment, because the detailed work has not been done, that the situation is containable within the original budget?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 14 June 2006

I understand all that, but is that the budget you are working to?