London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Bill

The Olympic transport plan will be paid for by the ODA, which has resources for that purpose. But noble Lords will recognise that not all of the plan will be the ODA’s responsibility; there are other contributors to it, and it will be expected through negotiation that they play their proper part, especially as in some respects they will be the residual legatees of the investment after the ODA has long gone out of existence. So it is only right that there should be negotiation about such expenditure. But the concept of the plan itself is the ODA’s, and the ODA has the resources to make payments to give effect to the plan. I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Higgins, as my memory was at fault. Clause 10 stand part was bracketed with an amendment that we did not debate because the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, was not here to move it. Such is the extensiveness of my preparation for these meetings that at times I think that debates have taken place, simply because I have read what my reply would have been.