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One of the challenges we were very aware of in the early days with the IOC—and it took a while before the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, and some of us all got to know each other—was the siloed nature of these developments. John Armitt played a really important role in the Olympic Delivery Authority, fortunately, and LOCOG was where Seb, the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, and others ran the Games. Paul Brickell and I ended up writing the structure for the legacy company for Hazel Blears, the Minister in the Labour Administration responsible for ensuring that for the first time we had a legacy company to drive all that stuff.