• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

Given that east Londoners do need to cross the river, why is the priority to build a six-lane road bridge, which will bring traffic from all over the country thundering past people's homes, rather than train links?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

In terms of getting hard cash out of the Government rather than just borrowing, you seem to be doing an awful lot better at making the case for London in terms of road building which will actually harm London's environment rather than public transport improvements which will enhance it.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

In the report that went to the TfL finance committee on 27 January, one of the reasons which I think you are reiterating, is that some of the programmes outside the PPP contracts have not been advanced by the Infracos at the rate anticipated and so costs have yet to be recovered. That was not my understanding of the situation, but we cannot argue that here. There are two different people saying different things. Can I ask you to list the underspend in detail on each of the programmes and the timelines that you have set forward? Because I get...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

It is a £180 million dip in the first years when it starts to go down but it goes up to about a £0.5 billion dip by 2005. I welcome the prudential borrowing, although bonds would have been better. I read in the Financial Times that all local authorities now have the freedom to borrow without any limits. Ministers hope that will provide hard-pressed councils with a financial lifeline and you were the financial lifeline. But is that not really a matter of Labour underfunding? There is no way out, they are in trouble and because of the problems of...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

But what will that mean in the long term? Will there be fare increases, will it go on the Council Tax or will it mean cutting projects to pay for this?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

Has the Government agreed to raise the grant to cover the cost of servicing the borrowing that they have given you permission to do, or are you going to cut projects?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

The charge is that it is TfL's financial performance that is causing the delays and not the Infracos.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

Can I have a list of the proposed projects and prices that you would see and a revised list giving the under spends?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 25 February 2004

But does it equate with the underspend?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004