• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

It is a good way of getting to sleep at night.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

On this issue of transparency in style, I think the Assembly is naturally focused on what TfL does rather than how it is done and I think there is a large extent to which TfL is a black box because you do not know what is going on inside it if you are an Assembly Member. There are risks here. One of the things I discovered when I started to ask some questions was the almost complete impossibility 4 of obtaining information about internal audit within TfL, particularly TfL's street management, where I think there are big risks. I very...

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

I do not think that you consulting widely is necessarily or at all supplanting local democracy, but it would certainly have been helpful to me to know that you were not consulting those local stakeholders who you have consulted on other changes to routes, for example. I just make the point that if you are not going to consult widely with all stakeholders, such as residents' groups, perhaps that should be clearly spelt out in letters that go to the people that are consulted.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Particularly when they are making £130 million a year on the suburban lines anyway.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

I am glad to hear that.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Can you name and shame the worst culprits amongst the operators?

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

It is actually, and in Lamont Road ' the same bus at the other end down in Kensington & Chelsea.

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

That is a relief to colleagues, no doubt. I also welcome your undertaking to publish TfL's audit reports in future. As you say, in the past you have given the Audit Committee minutes to the lead Members. Nonetheless, I know that when I have asked for audit reports from TfL as a result of having read those minutes, the people at TfL have told me that I could not have them, their implication being that the reports would have to be written differently if they were going to be public property. Will you undertake to make the reports available as...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Can I congratulate you as well? The area I want to raise with you is airports. I know that is probably beyond your brief and we are probably going to concentrate on the buses, Tube and trains, but it is about surface transport links with many of the airports and whether you have some views on things like congestion charging at the airports, better rail links to Gatwick and so on. It is not going to be covered by any of the questions and I thought it would be useful to have your views on that now.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Is it true that the inspectors who get on these bendy buses have minders with them?