• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Of course, as you have already indicated, from a day-to-day point of view, your senior advisers ' I used that term generically ' have authority to speak and act on your behalf.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

How does their manager know what instructions to give for carrying out the Mayor's wishes?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Do you give instructions to those members of staff?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

They are working for her and not for you.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

I am therefore intrigued that of the 45 members of staff who work for you, as listed in the GLA intranet, not one of them has the word `transport' in their job description. All of them appear to relate to the public affairs side of the brief. How does that come about?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

How much of your brief is taken up by transport?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Mr O'Neill, can you tell me what your responsibilities are?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Are you surprised that the Mayor said, `I often find lots of documents produced here which, if I had had time to go through and amend, would have had a strongly different tone'?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

What systems are in place to try to prevent things going out or being said in the Mayor's name that he may completely disagree with?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

Would you be kind enough to refresh our memories?