• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Are you saying it is not a part of the package, or you do not know it is a part of the package?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

I am not asking you to get involved with negotiations. I am asking you to explain what is being conceded by Londoners, which I think we would all agree is a part of your responsibility. Now, this proposal to save 76 jobs amongst signallers and controllers is actually the subject of a separate ballot which is going to be telling us whether signallers are going to be working on New Year's Eve or not. Is there any coordination between what is going on here, or is it just a case of different parts of the network bidding up to get...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

How are you going to pay for it, then, because there were some gasps of incredulity around the table just now when you were saying that?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Well, that is an interesting insight into London union politics from someone who knows a little bit about it. What Londoners would appreciate from you, though, is not necessarily getting involved, but an assurance that everything is under control. When we last discussed this in October, you stated in response to a question from me about New Year's Eve industrial action: `I have seen this mentioned in the papers, but I do not think the papers have accurately reported the situation. I do not anticipate industrial action on New Year's Eve.' Can you still assure Londoners that their Tube system...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Going back to the original question, when can we expect some later running on Friday and Saturday nights of the Tube, and are the main obstacles to progress at the moment employee issues or technical issues?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

You have given your friends in the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) ' at least the station staff ' 52 days off a year. How much are fares going to have to rise for passengers to pay for that?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

When the consultation has finished and so on, when can we actually expect them to get this all late night tube running?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Are we allowed to see that legal advice?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Well, we can all go there, because I can also point to my election result, which said something very different about what views are held on your Congestion Charge extension in west London, but I do not think there is any point in both of us crowing in that particular way. Of course, we have already got some sort of a taste, have we not, of what you can expect, not only with the extension, but the £8 from the latest survey that is being done by the Forum of Private Business, who suggest that 81% of their members would...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Well, that certainly does not seem to be the evidence of certain butchers and fishmongers that I have been speaking to. Anyway, it never ceases to amaze me how you and TfL seem to be more knowledgeable about a small business's books and how they run the business than they are themselves, but then you do seem to set yourselves up as being the only people who have any knowledge of the Congestion Charging, and anybody who disagrees with you must be just plain wrong.