The Telegraph has taken on a story this morning that has been brewing for a while and was first broken by Joey at Building.
The Telegraph writes that the ODA and the Olympic Executive's Quarterly Update this lunchtime will reveal that the government is again calling on contingency funds to cover the previously undeclared costs of maintaining and running the Olympic Park between its completion and the start of the Games.
These extra costs have been estimated at £150m-£230m.
The new costs are the product of a long-running wrangle between the ODA and Locog, the privately financed organising committee, over who should be responsible for funding the venues in the "scope gap" between their being completed in 2011, and final preparation work for the Games in early 2012.
The DT writes that the further raid to fund the gap could see the contingency reserve fall below £500m.
Both sides clearly want to be able to say they kept within budget and an extra £200m is not going to help with this.
It does somewhat call in to question all of those slightly premature stories last year about the Olympic Games coming in hugely under budget
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