• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

There is no guarantee on the money so far?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

Hybrid bill?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

I am absolutely delighted to hear that the SRA and TfL are reaching an agreement and I'm delighted to hear that you're well advanced with a hybrid bill but will that bill go through this year? If it doesn't, there are going to be delays. The other question is about Crossrail Two. Crossrail Two doesn't seem to have any Government backing as far as funding is concerned but I do hear that there may be some private monies coming in there. If there is private funding coming in, in order to get Crossrail Two off the ground, will you approve...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

To put it in two parts, I too welcome the move towards the delivery of Crossrail One, and Crossrail Two if we can do it. But you've given us assurances that you are satisfied with agreement about the route and the scheme, what assurances have you been given as to where the money is coming from and in what timeframe? Taking that into the context of the London Plan, why is it that the London Plan includes a very useful map of transport accessibility as it stands at the moment but doesn't include any map of transport accessibility at the...

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

When will you be able to tell us?

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

I find that very puzzling. Minutes ago, you were saying to John Biggs that you would like an openness and transparency and that the commercial confidentiality agreements were a bit troublesome at times. Now you're saying that you can't even give us a bit more information just because you're in discussions with the company you have chosen to do it. Now, if you've chosen the company to do it, alone that fact would give us a bit more information about what might be being planned. Can you not tell us? Are you planning to light up the river? Are you...

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

That would certainly fit with current practice. At last, Chair, we are beginning to get a modicum of vision here from the Mayor but a modicum with only ten months to go before New Year's Eve. I understand your concerns, as we do on the Assembly, about thousands of people in London but when you talk about something fit for a world city, can you not give us some more details given that New Year's Eve is only ten months away and Londoners have been letting us know their views about this? The emails and the responses that we received...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 26 February 2003

The point being that there is always a problem with transport; we can remove the problems with transport if we do things more locally. Do you agree with that?

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

I'm also interested in whether or not it's going to be rather more diverse, i.e. spread out more round London.

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

I suppose we all agree you're fickle, Mr Mayor. When we conducted the scrutiny here into the great New Year's Eve party that didn't happen two years ago, it was put to us by all the public service people, particularly the police, that major events like that needed at least 18 months to prepare. Given there is now only 10 months to go, and given you don't want to tell us anything about your plans, can you give us assurances that you have at least been discussing them with the police and the transport services and so on, or are...