• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

I am pleased that you are continuing to take a robust view on the third runway. I wonder if you are willing to take an equally robust view on the continuing existence of night flights and the suggestion that the cap on the total number of flights should be removed?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

You have previously stated your opposition to hidden subsidies to the aviation industry such as the absence of taxes on airline fuel. However, in the last five years, the LDA has spent nearly £6 million on projects related to the aviation industry. What do you think about these hidden subsidies from the LDA and do they need to be ended?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 February 2006

I have been a member of the LDA Board for two or three years now and I do not recall a single report explicitly on aviation and supporting the aircraft industry. I saw a report about the ancillary benefits. What we have done is we have invested in helping to secure the economic spin-offs of airport-related inward investment to London, including the initiative to encourage East-enders to get jobs at Stansted airport, which has provided a massive economic boost for the east London economy. Would you accept that that sort of initiative is very welcome and should be encouraged?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Some people feel that TfL is not responsive when it comes to consultations and has difficulty responding to the amount of correspondence that you might get from customers. With the opportunity of a new bill going through Parliament, do you think there might be an opportunity to codify, or even restrict, some of those responsibilities?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

TfL gets a huge amount of correspondence about its consultations and other issues. It must be a very difficult task to deal with. In the new GLA Bill do you think there will be any value in codifying the responsibilities of TfL to respond to consultations on traffic issues?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Would you agree that the policy is predicated on a philosophy that says car bad, public transport good?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Brian Coleman (Chairman): I am not sure you have, Mr Hendy. Angie Bray (AM): You began to touch on it.

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

I was trying to be very polite and not antagonise you in the way you have been by other questioners!

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Could I take you to outer London as opposed to inner London? What proposals do you have, if any, to improve the North Circular?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Is there any truth to the rumours that the burgeoning costs of the Olympics may endanger the Crossrail project? Could you alleviate our concerns on that particular one?