• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

What consideration have you given, or will you be giving to the impact of the redevelopment works themselves on the local transport infrastructure? I understand that three local stations, Wembley Central, Wembley Park and Wembley Stadium, may well have to shut simultaneously during the work, which will clearly wreak havoc on local residents and their transport needs. What consideration have you given to that?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

In the future when we look back on this we will regard the Wembley Stadium development and the surrounding area as one of the big successes of London's government's intervention, although there are bound to be some bumpy bits along the way. Whilst acknowledging that Robert Blackman (AM) seems to be suggesting you should have a greater role in influencing Section 106 agreements than the Conservatives have previously conceded, would you generally subscribe to the view that your role as Mayor is to be strategic, rather than to intervene into what are perhaps local disputes in the area?

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I am pleased to hear this because I had been told, and this must be a mistake, that you felt it was a private matter for each of the board members. My arithmetic is different from yours because the answer last time was that the total was £242,884, and assuming that you do not draw any remuneration, the other 13 members would average over £18,500. So perhaps there are some differences in calculation.

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I do not recognise that description at all! Will you perhaps consider issuing guidelines as to how members' fiduciary duties towards their employers should be dealt with? You will understand there is particular interest in the position of Mr Crow (General Secretary, RMT), who by any standards is in a difficult position, having duties to his members and duties as a board member.

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

Can I also welcome your commitment to making things more transparent as far as the TfL board is concerned, and express the hope that you will extend that to all the other functional bodies. May I ask you to confirm that you will try to adopt the practice that is done with the health authorities whereby in both public information and in the annual report the levels of remuneration of all board members, whether executive or non-executive, are spelt out specifically? Will you consider going even further in the interests of transparency and spell out the levels of remuneration of...

• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I am delighted to hear that because I know how strongly you feel that this must be the `most open and transparent government that the country has ever known', to quote you. Will you then extend that to the publication of the Register of Interests so that there can be clarity about conflicts of interest on the part of board members?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

I can see your point about the extra space and the increased travel time for people. However, one of the main things about this is that linking it absolutely to the extension into Kensington and Chelsea betrays the fact that it seems to be an imposition which needs palliatives to make it acceptable. Surely the issue of an earlier end to the Congestion Charge should stand alone, above all on its impact on low-paid workers in London's night-time economy?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

One of the things you also mentioned during the campaign was the possibility of reducing the charging period to end half an hour earlier. Are you still considering that?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

During the election I met several people who complained that they had paid for their Congestion Charge ticket, then through circumstances beyond their control had not driven into town, yet Capita had said they were not entitled to a refund. Will you look at the possibility of providing refunds either in terms of money or perhaps just giving them a free day they can use at some other time?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 24 June 2004

Will the Mayor also undertake to commission research into the impact of the Congestion Charge on low-paid workers in London's night-time economy because I do not entirely share your satisfaction that it has not had an impact? There are many people in the night-time economy, women in particular, who have to drive at a certain time and then return home at 2am or 3am. It would at least be useful to know that some research would be done.