5. To ask the Minister for the Olympics what recent progress has been made on the construction of the Olympic park for the London 2012 Olympics. (287470)

Construction of the Olympic park venues and infrastructure is progressing well.

Building work is well under way on the five main park venues: the stadium, aquatics centre, velodrome, the athletes’ village and the international broadcast centre/main press centre, and is ahead of schedule in some cases.

39.2 per cent. of the Olympic Delivery Authority’s programme is now complete.