London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Bill

I think that I am. If the ODA were relying on what I would regard as a technicality and stating that the grant had been received more than three years previously or that it was mixed up with other moneys and that one could not therefore be absolutely specific about the way in which it had been spent in detail, and if it were to use that as reason for not appearing before the GLA, the Secretary of State would state merely that her understanding of accountability was that substantial sums of money were coming to the ODA from the GLA, and that the GLA had the right to ask questions about the operations of the ODA. I am not sure that their relationship would be at that technical level. There might be some logic-chopping, but from what I know about relationships between two bodies of this kind, they would be engaged with the broader issues of the effectiveness of expenditure and the progress of the project. I give the GLA the credit that that would be what interested its members the most, and the ODA the credit that it would expect to answer in those broad terms. I can reassure the noble Baroness about that.