• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

When do you anticipate that TfL will produce an updated draft business plan to take account of this? We are all aware that the plan for 2005/06 and onwards aspirationally had a £1 billion shortfall. Assuming the market plays ball, with that amount less of a shortfall in aspirational terms, clearly the detail of what really can be done will require a lot of planning and consultation.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

I wonder how close you are to sacking Capita from parts of the congestion charging contract.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

Of course we will bear down on it. At last week's budget meeting you gave us an undertaking that you would seek to release audit reports which showed us how well TfL's finances and other systems were performing. Will you actually let Assembly Members see the detailed audit report into congestion charging, which has not been released so far, so that we can see for ourselves what the problems were and what has been done?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

The reason they said it was poorly controlled is, and I quote again, that `the original report was issued in December 2002, prior to the charge being introduced." They say that `as a result of those recommendations remaining outstanding for nearly 12 months after they were initially raised, and after two follow-up reviews, the report has been reclassified as poorly controlled." If you knew about the problems in December 2002, why has TfL not taken any steps over the last year to put them right?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

But you have not received any reassurance from Government that even though you are able to meet the debt from fare income, reductions in grant will not occur which may have an impact on the Council Tax demands by reducing revenue expenditure.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

But this morning you said that TfL will be building and financing the ELL.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

I want to congratulate you on the East London Line (ELL). I am delighted it is going ahead. Are you going to work with the ELL steering group and with their timetable and plans so that it can be in place and built before 2010?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

You have not got a good deal then if you have just been allowed to borrow some money. In answer to an earlier question you said that you are now saying, which you never said during the budget process, that you are assuming the Government grant will stay at present levels. During the budget process, when you were challenged about the bus debt of nearly £0.5 billion, and about your public commitments, which I think you said you did not give about underwriting Crossrail and all the rest of it, you said you would be fighting to get extra grant...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

You are telling us that things are improving, but on 28 January TfL's audit panel received a report into congestion charging IT and their own auditors said that the system was `poorly controlled'. Who are we to believe? You when you say it is less of a mess, or TfL's auditors who say it is poorly controlled.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 28 April 2004

Your congestion charging scheme. I think the consultation that you have done actually bears that out to be fair. I still get many complaints from constituents who have been wrongly charged or whose money has not been accepted. What have you done to sort out the IT system behind congestion charging because it is still a bit of a mess?