• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Do you accept that the overall package is unprecedented in the public sector in this country, in the settlement of your leaving?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

I was a little uneasy about this question, but I was allocated a lead role on it. Perhaps some of my less pleasant colleagues would like to follow it through. It seems to me that we have a perfect right under the Access to Information legislation to ask formal questions of TfL and the Mayor to which we get formal answers. I suppose underlying this is a concern that down the years that TfL has not been the most transparent organisation in the world. I guess that the contract of its Chief Executive could be seen as the apex of...

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

If I could dwell on examples, there has been some press speculation about the quota of business-class or first-class transatlantic flights that are afforded to you. There has been speculation about the catering bills; some cuttings from the Evening Standard suggest you are fed to a far higher standard than humble Assembly Members, for example. There has been other stuff like that, and I suppose it may be viewed as nosiness but I guess there is an aspect of public interest as to what perks there are around your employment and whether there is a transparency and understanding about those.

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Would anything in that contract prevent you, for example, from revealing details of discussions between yourself and the Mayor on the reasons for you leaving?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Sally Hamwee (Chair): I explained when I wrote to you ' I think it was before Christmas ' that we would ask about the financial details because it is a very particular, very unusual position that you are in, very much one of public interest. John Biggs (AM): The question was to ask you for a list of the contractual benefits to which you are entitled up to 31 January. Could you tell us how many crates of claret, how many rooms at the Savoy, how many transatlantic flights, how many gold-plated telephones you get as part of your contract?

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

I would like to return to your reasons for leaving TfL early. Obviously there has been a lot of press speculation about the fact that maybe you had disagreed and fallen out with the Mayor. That would not be surprising because I would expect that you would have some disagreements over working together for that amount of time. Could you just tell us what your most significant disagreement has been with the Mayor?

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

Was it your suggestion, the sums of money you were going to acquire as a consultant and the one-off payment? If you add up the sums, as far as we know, you will be earning in the first two years just as much as you were before, but working less. Was that your terms or was that the Mayor's terms?

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

Of course. That comment you made about encouraging people to travel for free, are you saying that you think it might encourage fare evasion once people get older than 16?

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

What about free travel on the buses for under-16s? We know, because you told us before, that you had some concerns about that. When you were last here you told us that you did not agree with freebies. In retrospect, were you right to disagree with the Mayor about that?

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

When you decided that you would leave this particular role, did you just go into the Mayor and say, `I am going'? Was there a negotiation?