• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Thank you very much. Can I just ask in terms of Mayoral Approval Forms how many you have refused to sign and, if you have refused to sign any, which ones they were?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

On 15 January, there was a meeting between TfL and my colleague, John Biggs, Chair of the Transport Committee. At that meeting he offered to look over the draft toolkit which is being launched next month and he was refused the opportunity to give feedback which I would have thought would have been quite helpful, given his experience and other Assembly Members' experience. Why did TfL refuse to --?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Are you aware of how the TfL toolkit has been consulted on?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

I'm asking about the toolkit; do you think the toolkit for staff will help?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

It's heartening to know that you think they get the finished Strategy but perhaps we could check that because I think it's quite important. Can I ask a specific point about the work that TfL is now doing? I think we would all welcome the fact that TfL is putting together a consultation toolkit so that staff are advised on how to tackle some of the issues we've heard about around buses. Do you believe that that will improve TfL's approach to consultation?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

It does seem a little disconnected to go to all the effort to arrange things and get people in and then not tell them what's happening. Can I then move on to how you decided to group people? You talked about a number of forums that you decided to have sessions with. Why did you choose to do it that way and not have perhaps more general meetings at which you broke into specific groups to talk about particular aspects of different Londoners' needs? Why did you choose to group them into disabled groups, black "? Doesn"t that rather simplify...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

But you haven't done that. There has been no feedback.

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Those are slightly different events because we are talking about the consultation on your work although those are important events in their own way. But it seems that you have a rather crude and simplistic approach to identifying people, arguably paying lip service to certain groups without even feeding back to those very people how those points are taken. You've admitted you don't feedback.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

As you know, Mr Mayor, we have difficulty distinguishing between your commitments and your aspirations and it's not always clear when you're joking.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

Ken, you are on record as saying that consultation is a good thing when people agree with you and a waste of time when people don't agree with you. Can you give us any examples of when you've changed your mind on something significant as a result of responses in consultation?