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

Mr Fletcher, as Chief of Staff, what are your responsibilities?

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

Perhaps the advisers present could tell us the system that there is whereby they report to you and how they act when they are acting on your behalf? How do they make sure there is an audit trail to ensure they are acting in accordance with your wishes and any changes are spot checked?

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

I notice you said that some things would have had a `strongly different tone'. Do all the mayoral advisers report directly to you or to the Chief of Staff (Simon Fletcher)?

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

Why is it that you told the Assembly at the last MQT that, `Sometimes things go out from this building that I completely disagree with'? Surely there must have been a failure on the part of your advisers if that happens?

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

Mr Mayor, generally, and when you have been absent for various occasions, is it correct that you have delegated your functions ' with one or two rare exceptions ' to the Chief of Staff normally, or occasionally other of your policy directors?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

But why could you not conceive of increasing it and then go back on it? That is what we are trying to get at.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

That came along, so you then broke the word that you had previously given.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Prudential borrowing and the prospect of raising bonds was being talked about when you made that pledge. Why did you break your word?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

What about for the future?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Well, as you see in my proposed budget, I am not proposing an increase in the council tax for TfL.