• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

Having not told me that, perhaps you would like to go further and tell me, of that amount that you're spending on advertising, what is the percentage that is being spent on advising people of this scheme and what they should do in order to get in contact with the right people and buy their passage in from outside the London area? I am getting lots of calls now from people who live way away from London who haven't got a clue. I am wondering what you're spending in terms of promoting what they should do outside the London area.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

It would not cost you very much to do something like complete the London Cycle Network or even start to think about an Orbirail network. These things would actually benefit Londoners. A member of each of the political groups here have just been to Paris and the difference there is that the political will exists to fund these things. Here in London the political will doesn't exist.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

But there is no actual money for amelioration if unexpected difficulties arise?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

Can I move on? On congestion charging: wish it well, hope, believe it may work but my fingers are slightly crossed behind my back. When you say IT, there are issues that we have raised continually. IT may not have slipped but it may slip up so I wouldn't be too confident on the IT side of the project yet. What I did want to say is that given that I think there will be some challenges and some problems, even though it will work, I don't see in this budget - and could you explain to me - where...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

A little one. We surveyed your survey. Ken, the point is that your survey was flawed so we've conducted a small survey on your survey.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

We'll see. I don't think prudence has changed through that part of the budget. Secondly, we did a survey of 500 people in west London on the Ealing tram, and 83.5% of the people responding are completely and utterly against the tram. So, at £18.6 million, whilst I adore trams, perhaps this isn't the right place to be putting your money, on this project. It simply doesn't have the support and there may be a better place to put a tram.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

I have asked you about Safe Routes to School before now and that would cost £65 million, that's for every single school in London. At the rate that you're financing it, it's going to take 20 years for every child in London to have that safe route to school. I think that's ignoring your responsibility to the future of London.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

There are four headings in the TfL budget where you admit to having a large underspend this year and yet you are asking for increased money for those budgets for next year. To me, that demonstrates poor budgeting, irresponsible planning and I want to be reassured that you're not simply being greedy and padding your budget, which I think you are doing.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

Good morning, gentlemen. The thing that I'm very concerned about is that we seem to endlessly find huge amounts of money for big projects and yet consistently find it absolutely impossible to do those smaller scale human projects that would actually make a difference to ordinary Londoners rather than people who are desperate to get into London from outside. My first question is, apart from building the Coulsdon by-pass at a cost of £28 million, and giving the go ahead to the upgrading of the A13, which is £200 million, and then proposing to build two new road river crossings...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 January 2003

Thank you for that. I don't think that's an answer. I have promised people that I might not be able to cut tax but, after you, I will definitely be able to cut waste. Could we have an answer to the question, please?