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• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

First of all can I congratulate you on the work you have done so far. I think you have done a spectacular job and long may it continue. I do not underestimate how very difficult it has been to get to this stage. I think it is very good and I am sure we are all impressed. My question is, in a worst case scenario how much of the contingency are you likely to have to use in order to rescue the financing of the Village and the Media Centre?

• Question by: Andrew Boff
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

John, are we facing the prospect that the Olympic Village might be completely funded by taxpayers?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

Thank you for a very well presented report. I am a little concerned with the costing, whichever proportion is given over to the taxpayer of London and the UK Government tax collection from the people. You mentioned the credit crunch. This morning 400 points was taken off the Financial Times Index within the first hour of opening and that probably will not change for the foreseeable future. I come back to the aspect of the Stadium first. Mayor Boris has made it quite clear that the £500 million Stadium will, at the end of the Games, go back to 25,000...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

On the funding of the Olympic Village, you have said it is extremely unlikely that there will be a scenario where 100% will be coming from public funds through contingency, but what proportion are you looking at now in terms of the mix of different sources of funding for the Olympic Village?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

I do appreciate that most of the questions we want to ask you are probably subject to commercial confidentiality and so the last thing you want to do is announce the answers in public, but I will try one and maybe you can give us a thoughtful answer on this. It is about the IBC, the Media and Broadcast Centre. Is there a risk that it might not ultimately be built where it is proposed that it be built but that an opportunity might arise out of current other developments in the property market to relocate them within the Stratford...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 08 October 2008

I have a couple of questions really, mostly around sporting legacy. It is something that I am very interested in. The first one concerns one of the venues and the second one is about the Stadium itself. It touches on some of the answers that you gave earlier. The first one is about the equestrian events in Greenwich Park. I was quite gratified by your response to Mr Biggs' question about possible cash savings. I know that KPMG is doing a review on that. The issue I think that I personally have with Greenwich Park is that it will cost...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Tony (Winterbottom), I have something else. The Mayor has just admitted that you use `expensive lawyers.' Those are his very words. When over 100 firms, then, employ lawyers to defend themselves in these situations in order to defend themselves and real jobs ' 11,000 real jobs in London ' they are then briefed against in the press. They are then briefed against and accused of being all sorts of things, which they are now completely fed up with ' that they are a handful, greedy; over 100 businesses employing 11,000 people are greedy. They are demonised, and then the lawyers...

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Do you see my point, Tony (Winterbottom)?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Like-for-like ' is that like-for-like? I do not think so.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Absolutely. I am aware of the Canary Wharf initiative, and I laud it. It is absolutely fantastic, and it is the kind of thing we want. We work very closely in north London with The College of North West London to try to look at the skills that will be needed in that area. Therefore, through the LSC and the further education colleges, it is absolutely essential that we work out the skills that are needed. That is what happened in Canary Wharf. They worked out the skills that were needed, and then were able to provide the training for...