• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Do you mind if I just come in because a mitigating fund is not the same as a revolving loan fund?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

If my colleague, Roger Evans, was here, he would be saying the same, because we have both spoken to Ian Brown and we are aware of Ian's support. It is just how we can maintain that momentum. I totally understand what you are saying about there being other priorities, and of course I am arguing for other lines as well. If I write you a letter can you put your commitment to this important link in writing to the campaigners for the Hall Farm Curve? That would give them more assurance.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Good morning, Peter. My question is about the Rail 2025 section around radial improvements, particularly in relation to the Chingford to Stratford rail link, and the piece we, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, call `The Missing Link', which you will know is generally referred to as the Hall Farm Curve. In the Rail 2025 document, it is quite clear there, on page 75, that radial improvement is top of the list. It says: `And that increasing the number of tracks ' and diverting Chingford trains to Stratford via Lea Bridge' which would then speak to our hope of...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

So you welcome us beating a path to your door with local schemes that need funding?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

And local schemes?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

You have several tram projects, including the West London Tram. Surely they are dependant on getting some capital permission, otherwise you have to elongate the design and consultation period, which is really going to be very excessive in expenditure is it not?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

What would you say then is the greatest risk to Londoners in terms of the current Spending Review by Government? You seem to be saying everything is guaranteed, we have no concerns and we hardly need make a bid for that because it has all been nailed down previously. That seems a bit too good to be true.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

Good morning, Peter. You have explained that the pace of the PPP programme and Crossrail are almost entirely dependant on the Comprehensive Spending Review. Can you say which of the major TfL projects will really stand or fall by the results of this Review?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

So those are subject to separate bidding and funding exercises?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 December 2006

The second part of the question is about local arrangements. There are two very quick parts to this and I would welcome very succinct answers. First, has the inexorable expansion of bus services in London reached an end and are there pressures to make it rather more difficult? Second, if there are budget pressures within TfL, are there many local schemes that will benefit; for example, safety schemes travel to school schemes, pedestrian fear of traffic schemes, pedestrianisation schemes, cycling schemes. Are they going to get squashed out of the sandwich as a result of this? What guarantee can you...