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London Olympics Bill

Debate on bills on Thursday, 21 July 2005, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Jowell. The answering member was Baroness May of Maidenhead.
London Olympics Bill. Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion for proceedings in committee, report and third reading agreed to on question (formal). Money resolution agreed to on question (formal).
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
436 c1432-507 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Money resolutions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
London Olympics Bill. Explanatory notes Bill 45-EN also published.
Thursday, 14 July 2005
Bills
House of Commons
Deposited Paper DEP 05/1144
Wednesday, 10 August 2005
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 436 c1448 (Link to this contribution) Before I call the next speaker, I remind the House that Mr. Speaker has placed a 15-minute limit on ...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1434 (Link to this contribution) I can assume only that the hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) was not speaking for his party, bu...

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Sadiq Khan | 436 c1434 (Link to this contribution) I am slightly concerned about the magnanimity shown by my right hon. Friend. The hon. Member for Twi...
Clive Betts | 436 c1434-5 (Link to this contribution) Investigations by Robert Booth, a freelance journalist, showed that towards the end of 2003 a heads ...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1434 (Link to this contribution) I shall allow more interventions later but I want to make some progress, as many people want to spea...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1435 (Link to this contribution) I have noted my hon. Friend’s intervention and I shall be happy to write to him further. The importa...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1435 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham (Daniel Kawczynski), but that is the l...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1434 (Link to this contribution) With the exception of the hon. Gentleman. I underline the importance of cross-party support and con...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1434 (Link to this contribution) It is about 350. The matter is one for negotiation between the LDA and the businesses concerned, and...
Eric Forth | 436 c1433 (Link to this contribution) Now that the Secretary of State has introduced the subject of money, can she give us—as she develops...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1432-3 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I wish to take this opportunity to place on...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1434 (Link to this contribution) I believe that the figure is lower than 700—
Richard Ottaway | 436 c1433-4 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the Secretary of State if she was planning to discuss this point, but when she addres...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1433 (Link to this contribution) The answers to both parts of that question have already been clearly set out in the submissions to t...
Daniel Kawczynski | 436 c1435 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for allowing me to intervene. I am extremely pleased to see ...
Speaker | 436 c1435 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I explain to the hon. Gentleman and to the House generally that we do not normally refer ...
Daniel Kawczynski | 436 c1435 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Secretary of State is talking about London, which is the key p...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1435-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that question. I note that he joined the tribute that I made to Lord ...
Ian Lucas | 436 c1436 (Link to this contribution) Will the authority have an obligation to pursue sustainable development in its operations? This is a...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1436 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. Sustainability was one of the key characterist...
Jeremy Corbyn | 436 c1436 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1436-7 (Link to this contribution) I want to make progress, if I may. After the games, the Olympic delivery authority will take charge...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1437 (Link to this contribution) The ODA will have a small board containing between seven and 11 people who will provide expert advic...
Lord Beamish | 436 c1437 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the work that she did to secure the success of the Olympic bi...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1437 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right and it is for that reason that we have on the face of the Bill gi...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1437-8 (Link to this contribution) In addition to the role of the regional development agencies, which I have outlined, the nations and...
Andrew Love | 436 c1438 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Sally Keeble | 436 c1437 (Link to this contribution) Northampton is in the middle of one of the Government’s growth areas and therefore well placed to he...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1438-9 (Link to this contribution) No. The importance of the ODA to the Olympic project is evident—a single body with a clear task, ac...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1438 (Link to this contribution) No; I am going to make some progress. The Olympic delivery authority will be the planning authority...
Jacqui Lait | 436 c1438 (Link to this contribution) Before the Secretary of State moves on, will she give way?
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1439 (Link to this contribution) I think, with respect, that the hon. Lady is confusing two things. The LDA is negotiating relocation...
Jacqui Lait | 436 c1439 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the right hon. Lady because this could reduce the length of my speech. Under c...
Lord McLoughlin | 436 c1439 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1439 (Link to this contribution) I shall move on to reaffirm and underline the importance of the points made by a number of hon. Memb...
Andrew Love | 436 c1439-40 (Link to this contribution) I add my voice to the congratulations to my right hon. Friend on the role that she played in winning...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1440 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention and pay tribute to his advocacy of the Olympic bid and t...
Pete Wishart | 436 c1441 (Link to this contribution) I have been waiting patiently to say something nice to the right hon. Lady. May I say on behalf of t...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1441 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, which was well worth waiting for. He has been cons...
Jeremy Corbyn | 436 c1440 (Link to this contribution) My point is about regeneration and the protection of existing communities. In the boroughs surroundi...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1440-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that important point. I hope he will be reassured in part by the fact tha...
Pete Wishart | 436 c1441 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1441 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman only because, if I did not, it would lead to an allegation of cruel...
Charles Walker | 436 c1442 (Link to this contribution) I would love to be nice to the Secretary of State because I am from Broxbourne and we are absolutely...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 436 c1442-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention and I echo his comments. I think he will find t...
Charles Walker | 436 c1442 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way for just a moment?
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 436 c1442 (Link to this contribution) On the basis that my hon. Friend said that he would be nice, I will give way.
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 436 c1442 (Link to this contribution) I begin by echoing the comments that I made in this Chamber on 6 July when the Secretary of State wa...
Jacqui Lait | 436 c1446 (Link to this contribution) I agree about the importance of negotiation with the London boroughs, but it worries me that the Gre...
Harry Cohen | 436 c1445 (Link to this contribution) I believe that security has been costed at £23.125 million. Given the events to which the right hon....
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 436 c1445-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right, in that there is a costing for security. I understand, however, that it...
Andrew Love | 436 c1443 (Link to this contribution) I seek a couple of reassurances from the right hon. Lady—first, that she will speak to authorities s...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 436 c1443-5 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will wait, I have something to say about London authorities and the Mayor of L...
Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 436 c1449 (Link to this contribution) Although I welcome the new jobs that the Olympics will bring, particularly in the construction indus...
Lyn Brown | 436 c1448-9 (Link to this contribution) I addressed a gathering in West Ham on Saturday as part of the VE and VJ celebrations. After we had ...
Jacqui Lait | 436 c1450 (Link to this contribution) : I am grateful to the hon. Lady for allowing me to pursue an issue that I took up with the Secretar...
Lyn Brown | 436 c1449-50 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. If we do not set up training programmes and to plan to get our children...
Andrew Pelling | 436 c1446 (Link to this contribution) Is not what my hon. Friend said particularly pertinent given that the Olympic bid team felt unable t...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 436 c1446 (Link to this contribution) I share some of my hon. Friend’s worries. It is notable that parts of the Bill give powers to the Ma...
Meg Hillier | 436 c1446 (Link to this contribution) I think the right hon. Lady is confused about the Greater London Authority Act 1999. The Mayor is di...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 436 c1446 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend says, he has particular experience of the role of the authority and its need to be...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 436 c1446-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady, if she is right about the bid team having appeared before the Assemb...
Derek Wyatt | 436 c1459 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware of Oxfam’s campaign to ensure that the IOC adopts the fair trade legislation...
Jeremy Corbyn | 436 c1457-9 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend on that point. The London Development Agency, the Mayor and the Minister...
Meg Hillier | 436 c1457 (Link to this contribution) : Does my hon. Friend agree that it is great news that the London Development Agency is setting up a...
Charles Walker | 436 c1455 (Link to this contribution) Are not hospitality packages another touting problem? A ticket with a face value of £50 can be sold ...
Lord Foster of Bath | 436 c1451-5 (Link to this contribution) Notwithstanding the appalling tragedy that befell London the day after that wonderful moment as Jacq...
Lyn Brown | 436 c1450-1 (Link to this contribution) I am about to deal with that. We need to ensure that the planning that is essential for the continu...
Jeremy Corbyn | 436 c1456-7 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to take part in this debate on what will obviously be a massive event for London and fo...
Lord Foster of Bath | 436 c1455-6 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is absolutely right. I should like to reflect, in passing, that if some of the e...
Lord Foster of Bath | 436 c1455 (Link to this contribution) There are many examples. Hon. Members know of people paying large sums for a towel and getting a fre...
Jacqui Lait | 436 c1462-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree that London will benefit enormously. I hope that the hon. Lady will take part in the Committ...
Jacqui Lait | 436 c1461 (Link to this contribution) . I do not represent a Gloucestershire seat, but I think that Gloucestershire can claim to have recr...
Philip Dunne | 436 c1461 (Link to this contribution) It is important that the organisation committee includes a member with responsibility for the countr...
Jacqui Lait | 436 c1461-2 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady will give me a second so that I can finish my sentence, I will be happy to go away—...
Harry Cohen | 436 c1459 (Link to this contribution) : Does my hon. Friend agree that it is incumbent on the Minister in his winding-up speech to expand ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 436 c1459 (Link to this contribution) I am indeed aware of that campaign. It is one of the factors that caused me to discuss the matter. I...
Jacqui Lait | 436 c1460-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to take part in a debate that is so welcomed in all parts of the House. The h...
Jeremy Corbyn | 436 c1459-60 (Link to this contribution) I have been mulling over the use of this word. It could mean discretion, being discreet or lots of t...
Dawn Butler | 436 c1463 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Lady suggesting that local people will not be trained and able to do the construction wo...
Dawn Butler | 436 c1471 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that co-ordination is also needed as regards the delivery of apprenticeshi...
Andrew Dismore | 436 c1470-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for indulging me and other London Members, who have had to duck i...
Mark Hunter | 436 c1468-70 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech to the House today. First, I add my congr...
Derek Wyatt | 436 c1466-8 (Link to this contribution) It will not be for me to consider, but last week we had a debate in Westminster Hall on elite sport ...
Charles Walker | 436 c1466 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that it would be nice if we took the Olympics across the country and...
Derek Wyatt | 436 c1464-6 (Link to this contribution) I do not have that breakdown, but I will get it for my hon. Friend. Given TimeBank’s existing work—f...
Andrew Love | 436 c1464 (Link to this contribution) I was interested in my hon. Friend’s comments on volunteering and I am pleased that so many people a...
Derek Wyatt | 436 c1463-4 (Link to this contribution) First, I inform the House that I am a trustee of TimeBank UK, the largest volunteer group in the cou...
Jacqui Lait | 436 c1463 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Lady. We want to ensure that as many people as possible are trained to take ad...
Lynda Waltho | 436 c1482-3 (Link to this contribution) I add my congratulations to the hon. Member for Cheadle (Mark Hunter), whose speech displayed an exc...
Andrew Pelling | 436 c1481-2 (Link to this contribution) That is a helpful suggestion. It might also be helpful to require the ODA to appear once or twice a ...
Justine Greening | 436 c1481 (Link to this contribution) Transparency is fundamental in ensuring that the finances are robustly controlled. Does my hon. Frie...
Harry Cohen | 436 c1487 (Link to this contribution) I have not studied the Bill in sufficient detail to answer my hon. Friend. I understand that the new...
Jo Swinson | 436 c1483-5 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for the fact that I was unable to be in the Chamber for the first few minutes of the deb...
Harry Cohen | 436 c1485-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire (Jo Swinson) is right to draw attention to the UK-wide touri...
Lyn Brown | 436 c1488 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the five boroughs concerned have done remarkably well in pushing toge...
Lyn Brown | 436 c1487 (Link to this contribution) : Will my hon. Friend give way?
Harry Cohen | 436 c1488 (Link to this contribution) Let me finish my point and I certainly will. We do not want Leyton and Leytonstone to be Newham’s c...
Meg Hillier | 436 c1488 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend acknowledge the role that Hackney has played as a host borough, particularly in ...
Harry Cohen | 436 c1488 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and I did pay tribute to Newham as a driving force. Now that we are getting down to the nit...
Pat McFadden | 436 c1489-91 (Link to this contribution) None of us will forget where we were when we heard that London had won the contest to host the 2012 ...
Harry Cohen | 436 c1488-9 (Link to this contribution) That is a good point, well made. But we want Hackney to do even more. We also do not want any more r...
Meg Hillier | 436 c1491-4 (Link to this contribution) It gives me great pleasure to add my congratulations to the bid team, particularly the Secretary of ...
Justine Greening | 436 c1494 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an excellent point that is linked to debates that we have held about vocational ...
Meg Hillier | 436 c1494-5 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the hon. Lady is so supportive of the Government’s 14-to-19 education agenda, wh...
Andy Reed | 436 c1495-6 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for not being here at the start of the debate. As I mentioned in an earlier intervention...
Jeremy Corbyn | 436 c1496 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that one of the big problems has been the sale of playing fields—particul...
Andy Reed | 436 c1497 (Link to this contribution) No, as I want to allow time for the hon. Member for Putney (Justine Greening) to speak. The Olympic...
Richard Caborn | 436 c1502-4 (Link to this contribution) I start by saying thank you to all hon. Members this afternoon. It has been a successful debate and,...
Hugh Robertson | 436 c1499-502 (Link to this contribution) That is today’s great improvement. I was enormously grateful for the briefing session provided by t...
Richard Caborn | 436 c1505 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. We should expect that, even though it is not stated in the Bill. There will be consultat...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 436 c1505 (Link to this contribution) Earlier, I asked about the relationship of the London boroughs and the London Government Association...
Richard Caborn | 436 c1505-6 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend bear with me? There are only a few minutes left for the debate and there are a n...
Andrew Love | 436 c1505 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Richard Caborn | 436 c1504-5 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I am sure that all the RDAs will work together and we shall give them every encouragement and a...
Sharon Hodgson | 436 c1504 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend knows, the world-renowned Gateshead international stadium is in my constitue...
Richard Caborn | 436 c1506-7 (Link to this contribution) No, but on the question that I am sure the hon. Gentleman wants to raise, I think there has been an ...
Andrew Dismore | 436 c1471-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. I hope later to raise one or two issues concerning the cons...
Dawn Butler | 436 c1472 (Link to this contribution) In the context of the trade unions, will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating the GMB on the dea...
Maria Miller | 436 c1477-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I shall keep my comments brief to al...
Robert Flello | 436 c1476-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, because it is important to make sure that every community is in...
Laura Moffatt | 436 c1479-81 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mrs. Miller), who is entirely right in s...
Richard Ottaway | 436 c1473-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore), particularly as it is not a Fri...
Andrew Dismore | 436 c1472-3 (Link to this contribution) As a fellow GMB member, I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who makes an excellent point. The GMB has p...
Andy Reed | 436 c1476 (Link to this contribution) I chair the National Strategic Partnership for Volunteering in Sport, and I am sure that my hon. Fri...
Robert Flello | 436 c1475-6 (Link to this contribution) I, too, would like to praise all those involved in the bid, but I would like specifically to single ...
Baroness Jowell | 436 c1435 (Link to this contribution) The public sector undertaking in relation to the staging and to building the infrastructure is £2.37...
Justine Greening | 436 c1497-8 (Link to this contribution) I shall begin by thanking the hon. Member for Loughborough (Mr. Reed) for allowing me time to make a...
Andrew Pelling | 436 c1481 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with what the hon. Member for Crawley (Laura Moffatt) had to say about the opportu...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 436 c1455 (Link to this contribution) Given the outlawing of ticket touting, does the hon. Gentleman agree that there should be suitable a...
Andy Reed | 436 c1496-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. As he knows, I have a great passion for grassroots spo...
Meg Hillier | 436 c1462 (Link to this contribution) I suggest to the hon. Lady that she is raising a scare by suggesting that London council tax payers ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 436 c1487 (Link to this contribution) : My hon. Friend has obviously studied the Bill in some detail. Could he help the House by saying wh...
Hugh Robertson | 436 c1498-9 (Link to this contribution) The IOC’s decision in Singapore to award the 2012 Olympics to London, and today’s Second Reading of ...
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