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

Do you regret the timing of this, coming at the same time as we have this large fare increase? Many Londoners are upset with the 10% or more increase at the same time as the sums of money that you are being provided with are being highlighted. Was that not bad timing?

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

I am interested to know what made you change your mind compared with a year ago and now. What has happened?

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

There are a couple of people here who are very pleased to hear that, at least. Finally, you said during your opening comments to us that you felt a challenge for the future of TfL would be to develop what you called a more reliable system of finance. What do you mean by that? Is it really the case that this is at the root of your falling out with the Mayor, the performance of the finance unit within TfL?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

I really want to pick up on what Roger Evans has just said. You mentioned the inevitability of disagreements between professionals; absolutely, that is par for the course. What I wanted to know was, apart from when your contract was renewed a year ago, were lawyers involved in the achievement of this recent settlement?

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

I think that is a concern about the system and the constraints within which you are operating, and which I guess you must have been aware of before you took the job on. Could you just say, because I do not think we have got to it yet, what was the point at which you decided you had had enough and wanted to go and do something else? What was the thing that did it for you?

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

You say you consider the Mayor a friend. You will have heard of the phrase we use of being a critical friend. We use it about the Assembly quite often with relation to the Mayor. What about industrial relations on the Underground over Christmas? Do you feel you could have handled that better?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

The answer is no, in other words.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

Then you do agree with this point.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

You have answered the question about a mad or a bad Mayor, I suppose there is a further question which is about a Mayor who attempts to implement a programme which is so manifestly stupid that it should be stopped but the Assembly and other bodies do not have the capacity to do that. How are you going to deal with that issue?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 14 December 2005

I disagree with you so strongly here, and I have told you this before. I think it would have been your legacy for London as regards democratic procedures if you had actually strengthened this body, regardless of whether or not they all agree with you all the time. In cases of corrupt Mayors in the future, it would be to your benefit as a Londoner to make sure that the next Mayor, whether or not he or she is corrupt, actually has some sort of democratic accountability and I think we can use it here. You would have been better...