• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Tube or rail, what is it?

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

Would you put money on Crossrail being finished before we get a new train on the Underground because of the PPP?

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

Do you know if the Crossrail consortium has given thought in the longer term to the spur, or the twin track line between Stratford and Tottenham Hale to link to Thames Gateway and Stansted Airport, because the line is not currently used by passenger trains, but the infrastructure is in place? My concern is, what is the time lag between phase one and phase two? And wouldn't you agree that such a project would benefit the depressed area of Tottenham?

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

The Liberal Democrat Group is strongly of the view that Crossrail should go to the Royal Docks because of the 20,000 new jobs , thousands of new homes and millions of visitors to the Excel Exhibition Centre. So in terms of the fact that you said it would be more costly if it went to the Royal Docks than the other, would you not agree that that actually is an investment rather than a deterrent and that what seems expensive now, in terms of what it will do for the area, is beneficial?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Mr Mayor, the residents of Ilford and Romford will be very pleased to see this analysis. Ken Livingstone: I'm sure, and I'm sure you will make sure I get the credit for it. Roger Evans: I think that it is a tribute to the hard work of local politicians and councils of all political persuasions and it is good to see that we have managed to help to convince you of this. However, can I make another bid on this, that you ensure that of the two spurs, this is the one that is built first? Obviously because of a...

• 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...