To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his Department approved the decision by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to commission a report by KPMG into the cost of the 2012 Olympics. (105561)

No. This is a matter for DCMS.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) pursuant to the answer of 4 December 2006, Official Report, column 210W, on the Olympics, how many staff in his Department's Public Services and Growth Directorate spend more than 70 per cent. of their time on work related to the 2012 Olympics; and what the pay band is of each such staff member; (105598)

Work on the Olympics cuts across a number of Treasury directorates and a large number of policy teams' and officials' objectives.