• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

How long will it take before residents can get some rest from all this? Secondly, will you be looking at this report done by Westminster's Community Protection Department because that clearly demonstrates there is a really serious problem outside the legal envelope?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

That is very positive. The Assembly's Transport Committee produced a report on industrial relations on London Underground in January where they made a small number of recommendations. Can you tell us what the progress has been on those?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

I do not want to disappoint you. I am pleased to hear that you are moving towards multi-year pay agreements because that does remove one source of 16 conflict. However, we also know that all the strike ballots we have had, and there do appear to have been rather a lot of them since this time last year, have not been about the pay agreement; they have been about local issues that have escalated or bizarre claims about bullying and management action within London Underground. Have you met Bob Crow [General Secretary, RMT] since you became Commissioner and what is...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

All these ballots must cost a great deal of money. Who is paying for them?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

You could do it covertly.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Which might suggest that the trade union's membership would benefit from a higher level of participation within their union. Is there anything that TfL can do to improve participation and therefore to make this business a bit more democratic and less volatile?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

A feature of the ballots that we have seen recently is that fewer than half of the people eligible to vote have taken part, and even fewer of the people who voted for industrial action have then taken part in the action that they sanctioned themselves. Do you think participation is a problem? Do you agree with me that it is a disgrace that a small number of people ' a couple of hundred militants ' can disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of Londoners by bringing Tube lines to a halt?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Then you are washing your hands of this rather awkward and minor business?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Surely that is the nature of public life, and you are in public life.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Almost two hours ago you went through five key challenges as Transport Commissioner. Which of those five - planning for growth, PPP, improving delivery and so on - do you think Bob [Kiley] is going to provide help with?