• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

How many of the 400 additional posts that have occurred within the Core GLA from 2000 to 2005/06 are you prepared to look at?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

One final question on this because I think it does raise a big question mark. Your Mayoral term ends in 2008 and the westward extension is not due to be up and running until 2007. Surely that makes it rather curious that you are prepared to spend so much money, £125 million in all, on the westward extension when within a year or two all that equipment will be absolutely redundant and obsolete? Why would you not just keep that money to spend on things Londoners actually want you to spend it on and wait for the big stuff to...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

The TOCU has been mentioned a number of times. Could you inform me what percentage of the TfL precept is actually consumed by that?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

What kind of scope is there possibly for a reduction in the TfL precept and its likely impact?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

Would I be right in thinking that some of that new technology trial is actually the `tag and beacon- trial that we have been told has been taking place in the Old Kent Road with more to follow?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

You wish. Well, we know where you are on consultation and it has never been one of your strongest points. However, let me also ask you about new technology, which you touched on. Could you tell me how much is budgeted and where it is budgeted in your budget for this year for the money on new technology trials?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

I am sure that we are very happy to record such a proposal as one of the parties who voted against the ringfence proposal ' perhaps the only party - the idea that somehow we should conspire against Londoners and have an agreement that our tanks should be off your lawn and yours should be off ours ' which was a conspiracy against the London taxpayers. Nevertheless, perhaps I could put it to you that this institution which runs such a large vacancy rate could indeed, bearing in mind the vacancy rate is 15%, immediately make savings without an impact...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

`Not in my Mayoral term, not for at least a decade- were your words.

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

You mentioned to us about the charge that I might be leading on the TfL budget, but one of the problems you have is that you have not properly valued the extra income that you are going to get from the buses and from the Congestion Charge, which will allow and permit this investment in London's transport systems. I am very concerned about two items. One is the advice that TfL are unable to put a value on the free Travelcards that they give to staff, former staff and contractors. The other question is a very good question that John...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 26 January 2005

I do expect a candidate who, after elected, comes here and boasts that he has kept his promises, when blatantly he has not kept these particular promises.... My guess is that some of those people, as it turns out, naïvely voted for you in the belief that you will keep those promises and you have betrayed them. You have just warned us this morning not to betray Londoners. However, I think you have betrayed them, and it has been revealed in response to answers to questions this morning, in two other respects. Firstly, you have accepted you paid above the...