• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

You all recall the response at the recent people's question time in Kensington when all shades of opinion, with the brave exception of one member of the Assembly, were united in saying that this is an utterly unworkable system for London and likely to do great damage to London's long-term infrastructure and interest. Would you agree that it's important that this is made abundantly clear to London electors between now and 2nd May?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

If this were a Tory Government you would not hesitate to rally London against them. Quite frankly I think you are derelict in your duty if you don't go that extra mile and see if the people of London agree with you as you have always said they have done. Given the record of the company involved, if you don't do that you will be handing over things like track, signalling and stations to a company that was fined £1.2 million for breaches of Health and Safety when constructing a new rail link to Heathrow - the largest fine ever...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

I am wondering what is TfL going to do with the response once they've got it?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

TfL has been doing a postcard campaign trying to get people sending back postcards on whether or not they support the idea of PPP. Do you have any idea of the response yet?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

Londoners of course will be voting in borough elections in May and elections do tend to concentrate the mind, but will you be writing to the leaders of all London borough Councils to seek their views on the PPP?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

Would you not agree that at the moment, since the power to direct and control the Tube remains with Government, the views of London Members of Parliament on the PPP are of great significance to the people of London and ought to be in the public domain? Can't you, as Mayor, assist in that process?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

Do you accept you were wrong not to have done that two years ago and establish this structure in the first place?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

But not with any Assembly Members. Why did you think that to announce it by letter to all Assembly Members two days before Easter was the best way to proceed with this?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

We will deal with the population growth later but that doesn't affect the structure you need to deliver for London whatever the population is. Can I move on then? With whom did you discuss these proposals before this report was produced?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 27 March 2002

If you are making such substantial changes at this mid-way stage, maybe you don't want to accept that you personally are failing, but it must surely reflect a view that the present system and structure is failing to deliver for you?