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

Not at Victoria, there is over 100% increase.

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

: I am never quite clear when TfL is counting in the effects of the Central Line and when it's not. When we asked them about the impact of Victoria Station and the extra passengers that seem to be using the Underground there, we were told that that was definitely the effect of the loss of the Central Line. Yet, we've been given extra ridership on buses and I just wondered whether that might also have something to do with the lack of the Central Line.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

There is an echo of surprise, I think, around London that the man who delivered this single most successful policy for you, is out the door before the ink is even dry on it.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

I am unclear about this consultancy role. It seems to me that it is a lot of spin to address the fact that fundamentally he has lost confidence in the senior management of TfL and they in him and they have parted their ways. If he is a consultant, how is he being appointed; what are the terms of that; will he still be in charge or will he not be in charge of the congestion charge?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Is he leaving or is he not leaving?

• 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?