• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

So there is nothing more you can tell us about this at this stage? Do you think that is in any way in contradiction with the fact that you leapt to the TV cameras the day the Select Committee - which had reached a conclusion you were happy with - made its third report on the PPP? Do think that in any way contradicts the fact that myself and Toby, for example, wrote to you on the same day as that Select Committee report, inviting you to give us a detailed explanation of your remaining problems with the PPP and...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Who actually do you think is really driving these negotiations and contracts? Is it Stephen Byers or is it Treasury? Who do you really think is fundamentally driving this?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Don't you think it's scandalous that you have not brought with you Bob Kiley, the Commissioner for TfL, to this meeting on this vital matter for London's transport?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

I would think highlighting the issue at this point and attacking the Labour Party would be a very opportune lever.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

In terms of Raynsford and Byers, I felt you were being a bit of an apologist at Mayor's Cabinet in terms of saying they'd been mis-briefed. They cannot be unaware that the whole of the world and everybody of opinion and everyone that has been sourced, is against the view they hold, so they might suspect that if they're being mis-briefed that they would get around it. They have all the machinery of Government to support them finding out the truth. I think they don't want to know the truth. Going on to what you said - that you would...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Given what you've told us this morning about the fact that these negotiations are in fact continuing, would it be fair to say that the Ernst and Young report is now completely meaningless?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Stephen Byers has said himself that it's really the lack of any alternative proposal that has led him to press on with PPP, and I think the Treasury has also said that there is no alternative funding that they can think of. So why do you think that they have completely refused to even consider the alternative proposals put forward by TfL?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

We have just been devising a new slogan for our borough election campaign and we thought `New Labour, Old Trains' might go down quite well. The great thing is, we could still be running that in 20 years time and it might still be working. Thank you for your initial remarks on the letter I sent to you, for those details you have supplied already, and I look forward to the full answer when you eventually have time to provide me with it. I have some more news which I thought to share with you, from the Piccadilly Line, the...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Given what the Mayor has said, I would really like us to make time in our diary, in the Assembly's work, where we can actually look at this report that the Mayor has been referring to, and ask the Mayor and Bob Kiley suitable questions. I think we need to make sure that we have it timetabled. The Mayor needs to give us an indication of when it's going to be published and we need to make time in our schedule. The Chair: I asked the Head of Scrutiny last week to talk to the Mayor's Office about timing and...

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

If there are delays then you have also contributed to them with some of the fairly pointless court actions and threats of court actions that have taken place. Can I just question one of the points that you made there? You said that Bob Kiley was a cautious person, and therefore would not be prepared to go into print with some of the assertions that you, yourself have been making. Does that mean that actually you're running ahead of Bob Kiley, your Transport Commissioner, in your assertions about the problems with these contracts?