• 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.

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

Well, I thought that Imperial College had already provided a report which did not give you the news you wanted. Anyway, let me set aside my own cynicism about your consultation, because it is obviously probably the only opportunity that people have actually to express anything in that they do not want your extension or your £8. Can I suggest, however, that for brevity, simplicity, and some clarity, why do you not lump the two consultations, the forthcoming consultations, together, because whether you like it or not, the £8 is now inextricably bound up with the extension debate. The two...

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

Yes, and they do, and then you say it is rubbish.

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

Certainly not with you.

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

It is amazing how you can always tell everybody else that they are talking rubbish, then, is it not?

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

Given that you advocate that the private sector should waive commercial confidentiality to show you the figures, will you direct Capita to do the same and waive their commercial confidentiality, which you have always invoked to withhold details of the contract?