• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

If you cannot take the Americans to court, why not take one of the smaller embassies?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 18 November 2006

If there is a stalemate on this issue, which there does seem to be at the moment, and if it is true that the Americans are being advised by their lawyers that they cannot pay the congestion charge, is there not scope for a negotiated settlement on this. The Americans, I understand informally, might be willing to pay an amount, equivalent to the congestion charge, into a charitable account of some sort, which could be used for a charitable purpose, which I would have thought would include community transport or something of that sort? It does seem to me that...

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

He would be paying for it?

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

It is just I recall ---

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

How much of London taxpayers' money has the GLA spent?

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

Ninety days, because that is all that he is allowed for tax purposes to work in this country. Ninety days.

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

You have already, effectively, begun the negotiations around the break-clause in 2010 on the PPP. Is that what you are saying?

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

The sooner the better. But if you are presenting the Bob Kiley contract as around the PPP renegotiation --

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

So, if I wrote to them, they would be able to tell me how many days he has worked?

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

So, if you are not finding out how many days he is working, who at TfL has actually got control of this contract? I can appreciate you are not a doorkeeper.