• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I want to focus on the North London Line, which is absolutely important for London but also crucial for the constituency I represent, Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest. If we just look at the Hackney and Islington part of it, you can see why we welcome the ambitions and the funding that are being proposed for the North London Line. Can you repeat what you were saying about your meeting with the Department for Transport? Are you saying that you were discussing a plan B, for instance, if the Railway Bill does not make it? What sort of timescales were...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Has the budget been earmarked for that as part of the overall budget provisions?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

If I can be a little more parochial and talk about London again. One of the projects halted until the 2006 Spending Review that is extremely important to London, is the phase two extension on the ELL Project. Given that there is only say a year to go to Spending Review 2006 and you have talked about the fact that you are developing capacity and putting together London Rail at the moment as a business unit, what development is going on of the business cases for phase two of the ELL extension? Especially bearing in mind that there are two...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

As elected politicians, we are clearly conscious of what the local people think. What is the point of consultation to nearly 400,000 people if you are going to ignore the results of that consultation and conduct your own interviews of 815 and take them as a high priority? Is that not an insult to the whole of West London?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

On the West London Tram, will there be an additional large pot of money to tackle traffic reduction and rat-running, as we saw with Congestion Charging, not only an important measure but an important measure in terms of building public confidence before the scheme goes ahead?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Moving back to capital for transport infrastructure development, we are probably only about a year away now from the next Spending Review, 2006, can you talk us through what processes of development are going on within TfL to make sure we get a good second bite of the cherry and what preparation and business case development is going on?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Are you saying that you will not be ready to put in a serious bid for funding for phase two in Spending Review 2006?

• Question by: Bob Blackman
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

You started on the subject of the Jubilee Line and I want to continue with that. What is currently proposed in terms of replacement of the signalling equipment, and are you proposing to take any action against the original suppliers?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

In fact, the questions we put took some two months to answer and when we did get an answer it was very short and goes to about five lines and begs further questions. When I raised this earlier, your excuse was overwork of your staff. I am sure that the procedure can be improved upon and I am sure that when your staff do answer questions they can answer them properly in a way that does not beg further questions.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 January 2005

As I think we would all agree, you said there is actually quite a tight mechanism of control in place not just for charity events but for a whole range of bookings and use of facilities at City Hall when they essentially involve a mayoral mandate or a mayoral activity. The GLA Act does give all of us, including the Assembly, some imperative to seek to promote equality of opportunity in London. How do you therefore compare the Assembly's relative lack of control in terms of our activity with not-for-profit organisations and the voluntary sector and your own activity? Do...