• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 November 2001

We spent £8 million last year, but it was spent via the £110 million going to the boroughs. We are going to spend £8 million next year, but that is out of £120 million going to the boroughs. So the boroughs are not complaining,

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 21 November 2001

Whichever way you look at the figures Jenny described, Ken, I am sure you will agree that the fact that only 2% of journeys in London are made by bike is a bit pathetic - especially compared with Copenhagen's 22% and Amsterdam's 28%. The fact that we are comparatively low down the list needs to be addressed. The Liberal Democrats in the past have told you about our idea of a "take bike" system, whereby commuters or tourists could use a smartcard to pick up a bike at a rail station or one of the interchanges - Earl's Court, King's...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 November 2001

Do you think that London cyclists should be confident that Derek Turner is their champion?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 November 2001

But he is a Board member. There needs to be someone in the management team.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 November 2001

That explains a lot about Bob Kiley. The second question is about the lack of a champion for cyclists within Transport for London - apart from Steve Norris, of course. Where does it belong? Part of the problem is that it was seen to be ambushed by the bean counters in TfL because it did not really have a home - it did not belong to the bus people, the road people or the rail people, so they went for it.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 November 2001

I do not want to cast slurs on your character, but this announcement of £8 million is a bit like what the Labour Government keep doing. It is double counting - money you are already giving to the boroughs - isn't it? It is just that you have ring-fenced it so that they have no opportunity to spend it on anything else?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 November 2001

You have been around long enough so that, when you make a budget announcement, people work feverishly on their calculators to find the catch; but on the face of it, what you are doing with cycling is welcome - with the caveat that, if it is being taken from money that the boroughs would have got anyway, that is a large and separate problem. There are two questions. First, is this not an example of Transport for London being blind to the concerns of cyclists, and of our Mayor having to rescue the situation in the face of severe lobbying...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 November 2001

Have you done anything so far?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 November 2001

My question is, are you going to find the money or are you going to make representations to the Government for them to find the money?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 21 November 2001

Mr Livingstone, you told Jenny Jones that you felt that boroughs would be pleased with the package you were putting together for them. I have to tell you that the London Borough of Havering are concerned about £2.6 million that they say they are owed by Transport for London for work around the de-trunked section of the A13, which was originally promised by the Highways Agency. You will also be aware that Waltham Forest feel you owe them £4 million, and Redbridge feel you owe them £360,000 for work around the construction of the M11 link road - all of...