Member

Noble Lords will remember that, before the Games, we had terrible weather in this country. The Olympic Stadium had a very short roof. The noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, is laughing, because he and I both know that we were all panicking about what it was going to be like if the weather persisted. But then, when the Olympics happened, suddenly, like today, the clouds blew away, an act of God happened, we had amazing weather and the roof worked. But, because there had not been a proper joined-up conversation between the legacy company and the ODA, really, before we laid any concrete, some of us were worrying about the long-term sustainability of that £0.5 billion building when it would be used for football in winter in England. That meant an actual cost to us as a legacy company—think about the sustainability numbers and all of that—was £323 million to extend that roof to make the stadium fit for purpose for what it is today.