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

I asked the question to highlight the fact that you do not have the record and you should have the record.

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

You were given an `excellent' rating from the Audit Commission because of your excellent Finance Director, that is why. Not because of Bob Kiley.

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

No, I am more interested in the PPP renegotiations than your re election.

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

OK, we trust him. How many days has he told you he has worked?

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

Let me try and get somewhere. We can argue about how much you are paying him, and we are certainly not happy, but if we go back to the PPP point, PPP is a nightmare, it has been foisted on Londoners by, indeed, your Government. Any help and advice in trying to get that unravelled in some way is welcome. Let me push you on that, because the break-clause is not until 2010, and his contract with you ends in 2008. So are you going to be renewing it?

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

Will you tell us what Mr Kiley actually does for this enormous sum that he is paid on a daily basis?

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

Since the start of Mr Kiley's consultancy contract, how many days has he worked?

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

OK, we trust him. How many days has he told you he has worked?

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

That is why I have not asked you any of those questions.

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

Very nice eulogy, Mr Mayor. In your previous answer, you said Mr Kiley also attends TfL's offices when necessary. A consolidated list of these dates is not kept. Now, your diary is open to public scrutiny, so is Mr Hendy's (current Commissioner, Transport for London) but here we have Bob Kiley, who attends sometimes. We do not know when, we do not know what he does, and yet he is paid a daily rate more than most people earn in a month. Now, you said in 2000 that you would run the most open administration ever seen, but this is...