• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

You told this Assembly you were going to pay him £3,000 a day. Surely you have not got a clue how much you should be paying unless you know how many days he has worked.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Now, that is not quite accurate, is it? There was a lot of trouble and strife within the operationals of TfL about Bob Kiley. Frankly, you have contributed the success, or otherwise, of the buses, etc, in London, but that is down to the present Commissioner. So why did you not retain him? If he is so essential to you, why have you not retained him?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Mr Mayor, to your credit, you have been very loyal this morning to Bob Kiley. Now, tell me, if you think so much about him and thought so much about him at that time, why did you replace him?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Good. However, his time expires in June 2008. Unless you are securing his services through, is that the right horse to be backing?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Yes, but I am talking about your Transport Operational Command Unit.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

So the point is, the advantage of going down this road is that we have got government assistance as well on this.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

But they may be moved into inner London?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Part of the problem we have at the moment with the policing at Crosslands is, I would not call it an inability, but there seems to be a reluctance to cross BTP (British Transport Police) and MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) borders, and there are clear, laid out rules and agreements of whose patch is what. Where will these PCSOs fit in? Will they be able to go in and out of the transport nodes? Will they be able to really provide security for Londoners?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

Whilst I recognise they are going to be under the Borough Command we are promised by the Metropolitan Police Service, is that the understanding of TfL as well?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

You make a very valid point, Mr Mayor. It is not when you are on the bus or on the Tube, it is actually when you get off them at the transport nodes there is some violence and even at bus-stops.