• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Half of 1%?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Mr Mayor, your Report this time tells us that the set up costs for the appeals service for the congestion charge are £423,000 and the estimated annual running costs will be £700,000, which seems like a lot of money. Before the charge was introduced, on 4 February this year at the Transport Committee, my friend and colleague, Lynne Featherstone, asked TfL what estimate they had of the number of appeals that there would be. Malcolm Murray Clark, who was the Project Manager for the congestion charge, stated that half of 1% of appeals for bus lanes were successful and that...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

But if he wished to come as part of that meeting, you would be happy that he should attend?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

On a more serious note, you've been talking earlier about the money that you are hoping is going to accrue to Londoners as a result of selling the policy elsewhere. Can I refer you to some people who are very concerned about money that's flowing out of their pockets? I know that you have had a letter from the Chief Executive of the Macmillan Cancer Relief - I think we have all had copies of that letter; I certainly have - and he has obviously brought to your attention some serious problems being faced by people undergoing regular treatment for...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

It's round the world?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

I am just intrigued about this company that Derek Turner is setting up that you're buying shares in. This `close, personal friend', as you call him: I seem to remember you in another place criticising senior civil servants who left there and then suddenly ended up with consultancies with Government. What is the actual situation here? Isn't it going to look a little odd to Londoners?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Most people who travel on the Tube between 8.00am and 9.00am would say that current levels are unacceptable anyway.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

: Your estimate was 2,000 and there are quotes of 17,000 at the moment, aren't there?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

How many is that in thousands?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

We could argue about that. I think Peter Hendy has done a fantastic job; I am just concerned about that background. On the escalation in Tube numbers, are you monitoring in any way the numbers? Are you getting the numbers in? You don't believe the ones that are coming through.