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• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

It says that Londoners and the lottery will split any over-costs between them, so that is how you are happy to leave it, are you, Mayor?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I was interested to hear you say that should the overrun exist or be bigger than you expect, you will go to Government and ask for a refund of taxes which they have levied on the Games and income generated by the Games. Why do you not now join our campaign to see that the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Gordon Brown) remits the VAT which is going to be levied on the lottery? That would be a very substantial sum of money up front, which will show the strength of the Government's contribution to funding the Olympics. You have already...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

The review was written into the understanding.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

That is absolutely fine, but Mr Mayor, apart from the fact that you may not be Mayor in 2012 ' roll on the day ' you may well be leaving a legacy for somebody else who will then have to deal with the situation at the time which you could, if you took action today, at least try to amend. What is wrong with you throwing your considerable weight and influence behind a campaign ' whether it is inside this review meeting which should happen, or whether it is not ' to ensure that somewhere during the passage of the...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Well, that is commendably brief. Thank you very much. Can I ask you why not? It was, after all, something that was promised in this Memorandum of Understanding, so if it is to have any creditability at all ' that is something in there that said that this review was going to take place. Why are you so determined not to have this review? Apart from the fact that it should be happening anyway, because it was promised by the Government, why are you so determined not to have this review of what is a very, very important spending aspect...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

How will the OTA be made up? Who will appoint the members?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

What you are saying, though ' and I can understand the imperatives ' is basically that the transport needs of the Olympics, those couple of weeks, are going to be paramount over the transport needs of Londoners, as interpreted by TfL. How will a dispute of that sort be resolved?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Then there will not be another road grab beyond the one that is currently in progress?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

What if the OTA has a dispute with the boroughs and the roads that they operate? Who resolves that problem, then?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Just so we can understand what are the implications of that, you talk about developing an Olympic road network. Is that just going to be roads which are currently part of the TfL strategic road network, or do you see that network including a lot more borough roads and being a lot wider?