• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

I wanted to ask you about something else. At this moment - I think whilst we are speaking - the LDA is announcing its reorganisation and its cuts. We have not heard anything about that. I am very concerned because of the size of the cuts that there will be cuts in the environment programmes which you have just said this morning are going to remain your top priority and rise up your agenda. So I am concerned about that. I am also concerned that agencies like the London Climate Change Agency which is set up to bring in the...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

Given that the rest of the country is going to be moving to touch ticketing, do you plan to make Oyster Cards compatible so that Londoners can travel outside of London with just a single card?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

how will you secure through-ticketing for the Olympics and ensure that all visitors can use just one card - or even, as you have suggested, their mobile phone - for travel and events in 2012?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

Caroline Pidgeon (AM): So are you planning on TfL taking on running [Oyster Card]?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 10 September 2008

would you be prepared to commission a piece of work which looks into - and the previous Mayor was fantastic at doing this and I am sure you want to emulate him - existing planning policies and whether or not they do support this sort of street market retail outlet?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

I wonder if you would like to comment on the cost of consultants for your predecessor's pet projects? After all, Deep Throat has told us that the LDA was closely directed by the Mayor's office and the forensic report tells us that the Board of the LDA was left in no doubt what Mayor Livingstone wanted to do. I have to say this is a completely new one to me; the people who walked in darkness have now seen a great light thanks to this report and the light would shine a lot more clearly had the previous Mayor actually...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Could I just be clear then; do you expect to use less consultants here, at the LDA and TfL than in the previous four or eight years?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Could you write to us outside this meeting identifying the material proportion of the consultancies which were not value for money? Would you not accept that, for example, if you are going to build a bridge costing £500 million, as is proposed, you might have to spend several tens of millions of pounds on design consultancies, engineering consultancies, hydrological consultancies, planning consultancies and whatever other transport consultancies in order to get it through and it would be inefficient in the extreme of the Authority to employ all those people rather than to employ professional consultants who know what they are...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

Obviously upstairs you have a transition team in place and one could label them as short term consultants in effect, getting you started up. We know that is likely to cost up to £500,000. Could you send us - I think this has been promised before - the costs of each of those individuals upstairs? I believe some of them have been loaned by Conservative headquarters and Francis Maude's [MP for Horsham] office as well. Is that correct?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 16 July 2008

I was going to make the same point. I understand you made a categorical promise during your campaign and I was going to ask are you now going to make sure that that -