• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

I was hoping, optimistically, that you would either give us a long list of the 27, which I could read out, although I'm supposed to be asking the questions, or assure us that in the five days left you will get round to doing them. One of the difficulties of keeping tabs on what you are up to is the disappearing commitment. Do you recall saying, "I will instigate a Londonwide programme of crime mapping?" That was in your manifesto. It showed up in the Business Plan monitoring report earlier last year and, indeed, it showed up in here, your...

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 26 March 2003

This is a new form of government that we have here, mixing the political and the executive. Are you entirely confident that the procedures that we have in operation put enough checks and balances in place to ensure that things that you and your advisers might wish to do are properly checked out?

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

In short, you've generally just accepted them?

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

Can you tell me which those occasions were?

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

How many have you sought additional information about, either at the stage at which you're about to sign it or before then? Have you ever done that?

• 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?