Olympic Games 2012: Security
Home Department
Stewart Hosie (Dundee East, Scottish National Party)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the nature was of the delays encountered by G4S in training security staff for the London 2012 Olympics.
James Brokenshire (Old Bexley and Sidcup, Conservative)
G4S indicated to the Home Office at the end of June that they were encountering specific problems with their scheduling system for security staff. As these problems continued we started making further contingency plans over and above those we had already put in place, notwithstanding continued G4S assurances that they could meet the Games-time requirement. On