• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Can I then ask will it be possible for GoL to actually lead a seminar or conference at the launch of this, because they have done something like this previously when they have launched a major strategy or a document which there can be a lot of learning from.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Can I just follow up and say that why I have raised this is that we really need as long a lead in time as possible. If we can get them before April, that would be great, but it is about recruitment to ensure that we carry on recruiting as many women as possible, as many people from ethnic minority communities, so it would be good to have a statement made as soon as possible when that is going to be brought forward.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

You have said elsewhere that you might be looking to bring the implementation forward of the next tranche. Can you confirm, really, when we will see the next tranche of neighbourhood teams?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Unsurprisingly, I do not think it was quite the package you said it was. I think there were lots of broken promises; it was about what was not in your business plan. Unfortunately, we have fallen short of time and I have not got time to go through the whole list.

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Can you confirm that you are still committed to meeting with myself and MPs about issues that we would like to draw to your attention about the East London Line extension, and indeed the Victoria Line?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

You talked a lot about the £2.9 billion. In fact, you have included quite a lot of projects which are not a part of that actual prudential borrowing allowance from the Government, but does that permission not just amount to the Government taking something that they should be funding and giving you permission to put up fares and charge Londoners for it? Is it not a case of Gordon Brown robbing London again and you acting as his agent?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

The thing is, if you are using the bus every day and your bus fare is going up by 20% for the next three years, or if your Tube fare is going up by inflation plus 1% for the next three years, it does not look much like a gift horse if you have to pay. Can you tell us why it is you did not tell Londoners before the election that you were going to put fares up to this extent? Indeed, you gave a commitment that fare increases would be pegged to inflation.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Did you just say that you had asked for this but you had not budgeted for it?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

What will more transport investment in Crossrail add to the £10 billion investment package you have already negotiated?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Do not worry; you will hear them later. I hear a complete cop-out on the A406, just in a passing swipe: £24 million from litigation. There would not be rat running if you had not ducked the issue. I am going to take one thing from the list of broken promises. In your manifesto, a key pledge, on pages 7, 9, and 29, running of the Tubes an hour later was not mentioned in your five-year plan.