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London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Oral evidence Tuesday 15 November 2011 Lord Sebastian Coe, Chairman, Paul Deighton, Chief Executive, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, John Armitt CBE, Chairman, and Dennis Hone, Chief Executive, Olympic Delivery Authority Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 15 November 2011 HC 689-iv Published on 7 March 2012 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £5.50 The Culture, Media and Sport Committee The Culture, Media and Sport Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and its associated public bodies. Current membership Mr John Whittingdale MP (Conservative, Maldon) (Chair) Dr Thérèse Coffey MP (Conservative, Suffolk Coastal) Damian Collins MP (Conservative, Folkestone and Hythe) Philip Davies MP (Conservative, Shipley) Paul Farrelly MP (Labour, Newcastle-under-Lyme) Louise Mensch MP (Conservative, Corby) Steve Rotheram MP (Labour, Liverpool, Walton) Mr Adrian Sanders MP (Liberal Democrat, Torbay) Jim Sheridan MP (Labour, Paisley and Renfrewshire North) Mr Tom Watson MP (Labour, West Bromwich East) Powers The committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the internet via www.parliament.uk. Publication The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on the internet at www.parliament.uk/parliament.uk/cmscom. A list of Reports of the Committee in the present Parliament is at the back of this volume. The Reports of the Committee, the formal minutes relating to that report, oral evidence taken and some of the written evidence are available in a printed volume. Additional written evidence is published on the internet only. Committee staff The current staff of the Committee are Emily Commander (Clerk), Sarah Heath (Assistant Clerk), Elizabeth Bradshaw (Inquiry Manager), Jackie Recardo (Senior Committee Assistant), Keely Bishop/Alison Pratt (Committee Assistants) and Jessica Bridges-Palmer (Media Officer). Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 6188; the Committee’s email address is [email protected] List of witnesses Tuesday 15 November 2011 Page Lord Sebastian Coe, Chairman, Paul Deighton, Chief Executive, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, John Armitt CBE, Chairman, and Dennis Hone, Chief Executive, Olympic Delivery Authority Ev 46 cobber Pack: U PL: COE1 [SE] Processed: [06-03-2012 08:11] Job: 018137 Unit: PG01 Source: /MILES/PKU/INPUT/018137/018137_o001_th_Corrected Transcript Olympics CMSC 15 11 11.xml Ev 46 Culture, Media and Sport Committee: Evidence Tuesday 15 November 2011 Members present: Mr John Whittingdale (Chair) Dr Thérèse Coffey Mr Adrian Sanders Philip Davies Jim Sheridan Mrs Louise Mensch Mr Tom Watson Steve Rotheram ________________ Examination of Witnesses Witnesses: Lord Sebastian Coe, Chairman, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Paul Deighton, Chief Executive, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, John Armitt CBE, Chairman, Olympic Delivery Authority, and Dennis Hone, Chief Executive, Olympic Delivery Authority, gave evidence. Q262 Chair: Good morning. Before we start I would Landscaping, of course, we continue to work around like to express the sadness of the Committee at the and will continue to work around that as Seb death of our friend and colleague Alan Keen. Alan completes his works and then we will probably go was the longest serving member of this Committee back in and tidy up. We continue to be closely and he will be greatly missed, and we send our involved in transport, although there again we are condolences to his family. handing across, in a sense, the planning aspects of This is a further session of the Committee’s transport and the work that we have done in thinking examination of preparations for the London 2012 about what is required to the actual operational phase Olympic and Paralympic Games. It is an annual of that to Peter Hendy in particular, who is session we have and I would like to welcome this increasingly taking the lead on transport and its actual morning Lord Coe, the Chairman of LOCOG, Paul operational aspects in London—the planning of the Deighton, the Chief Executive, John Armitt, the operations against the overall plan. People say, “Well, Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, and you must be nearly finished”. Yes, we are nearly Dennis Hone, the Chief Executive. Perhaps you could finished but we still have quite a lot of work to do and just give a brief summary of where we are now and are having to just keep our eye on the ball for the how you see the state of play in the remaining six remaining months, and supporting LOCOG obviously months before the Games. in the work that they are doing on the park. We hand Lord Coe: If I may, just before we get into it, also over the park itself in January, from a control and express our sadness at the loss of a valued member of security point of view, to LOCOG as well. your Committee and a very strong personal friend to this whole project. Alan was with us at the very outset, Q263 Chair: Can I just ask you, what is your current he was with us throughout the delivery phase and was estimate of the amount of the £9.3 billion that will be one of those politicians who did look like he enjoyed left to return to Treasury? being at sport and—wearing just a particular hat—he John Armitt: Our current amount is the amount that was of course Chair of the All Party Parliamentary we last declared, which is the £870 million, but as I Athletics Group. So we share in your sadness this say we are continuing to push down on that and morning. hopefully we can find some further savings over the John Armitt: As far as the ODA are concerned, we next few months. We only like to release that when we are now well over 90% through our scope of works. are really confident that we have something to release. All the main stadia are completed. We have some Lord Coe: Very briefly and just picking up work still to do to finish the artillery barracks; we immediately from John, we are massively scaling up have some work to do to finish the water polo stadium the organisation. I think we are recruiting at about 120 and the Olympic Village itself. We are in the final people a month. We are currently a work force of throes of that but we expect to complete that by the about 2,000. Over the next nine months we will be end of this year, ready to hand over to LOCOG at the reaching 6,000, so clearly quality and thresholds are end of January. So we are on track with the village. very important there. Also we have the venues to We continue to bear down on our costs. We have £870 complete. You have been to the Olympic Park but million of savings from the budget so far. We remain there is a mountain of work to do making sure that very aware of the fact that we have had a good safety they are all operationally integrated, turning those record so far. We are very concerned that we keep that magnificent venues into theatres of sport, and that is through to the end and, as ever, the difficulty of doing a Herculean amount of effort. Of course, it's a that becomes greater as you get towards the end and question of testing, testing, testing. For me it is a very perhaps people take their eye off the ball a bit. So we simple analogy. I never wanted to go into any continue to have a very strong focus on safety. Olympic final and be thrown something I had not been For us, there is still a lot to do, however. We are laying thrown or dealt with a thousand times before on the lots and lots of tarmac at the moment, and that will training track. That is exactly what we are going continue, to prepare the areas for Seb’s team, for through at the moment. I think we have done 18 or 19 LOCOG’s team, for their back-of-house activities. test events; we will have 42 altogether, and not just cobber Pack: U PL: COE1 [O] Processed: [06-03-2012 08:11] Job: 018137 Unit: PG01 Source: /MILES/PKU/INPUT/018137/018137_o001_th_Corrected Transcript Olympics CMSC 15 11 11.xml Culture, Media and Sport Committee: Evidence Ev 47 15 November 2011 Lord Sebastian Coe, Paul Deighton, John Armitt CBE and Dennis Hone testing the field of play. We have many other venues coming in from the European Union but we obviously that are non-completion, which we must make sure have practices and we work with all of the contractors operate properly. Clearly budget is important—our to try and make sure that they are paid at the London ability to maintain a balanced budget and also to drive living wage. down costs at all time, which means good, smart procurement practices. Of course, this is a process of Q268 Jim Sheridan: You try and make sure? engagement and excitement.
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