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

That was an instance, in fact, when you decided not to go with the advice you were getting from an officer. Can I ask you whether you make a distinction between consultation and information? It seems to me that you spend quite a lot of time and money, not least the £100,000 you're going to spend to launch the long-awaited Cultural Strategy, which is really, let's be polite and call it information, although some would call it propaganda. What I am less clear about is what you learn from the consultation part of that process.

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

I would have thought, Mr Mayor, with respect, that all Assembly Members - especially those of us with constituencies who regularly have to deal with a lot of bus issues and we have, I think, a productive relationship with TfL in many cases - have experience of the consultation, or sometimes lack of it, which would be very valuable and I would have thought would have informed the toolkit.

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

So, it's one rule for one Assembly Member and another for others, is it?

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

This was at a meeting on 15 January. I don't think it's appropriate to name the officer; the point was that he was not given the chance to see a draft of that document.

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

That's certainly an impressive list of documents sent out, documents received but what we're really interested in, and I hope that you are, is outcomes. First of all, you have a number of one-off events on various strategies. What's been the mechanism for following up and letting people know what the outcome of those events has been?

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

There are many positive ideas and I am happy to meet with you if you will agree, on a separate occasion, to run through them with you.

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

It is rather long but if you would like to have a meeting with myself and John Biggs and we can go through that because there are some very helpful and good things for you to aim for.

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

It pains me to agree with my colleague, John Biggs, but -- John Biggs: It's bad news for me too! Lynne Featherstone: -- but he is on the right track here and I think you will find the Assembly scrutiny on Tube investigation on Mind the Gap very helpful in informing your vision about service standards for London. I trust you have read it. What isn't going to be satisfactory is that every time a standard is talked about, if the Mayor says, "Can't do because of the PPP", I actually think London is going to expect something from the...

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

So the trains will come on time?

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

Do you want 24-hour services? Do you want smoking cars, first-class carriages? What service proposals do you have? You should set these out.