• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Okay, thank you for that clarification. I agree. The last question is really going back to disclosure, which I think in terms of death in custody and the Police Complaints Authority is a big issue even with the new legislation that's going to come through, because the release of information can prejudice an inquiry. But victims' families are kept in the dark so much more than is necessary that it casts a shadow over any finding at any point and actually can damage the police just as much as the victims. So, what means do you as Chair think can...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

On the same subject, of consultation, your relationship - or TfL's relationship - with the London borough of Redbridge cannot be very good at the moment. In Wanstead, work is outstanding on the upgrade to the A12, which the Highways Agency agreed to pay for before Transport for London took over responsibility for it. Transport for London has now reneged on the promise to pay the council to do that work. Is that something you will be able to pursue for us, to get us the money? Please do not tell us it is because the organisation has changed, because...

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

I welcome that response. This arose because Transport for London was not really consulting, although its job is to consult people - and not particularly about the major strategies, because that is quite good for us at this level. It is the real nuts and bolts, and issues about buses. Until yesterday, I had been approached to say that they are undertaking that issue. But Ken, what went wrong on the A2 with the weak bridge at New Cross Gate, where street management failed to consult the relevant agencies, which has caused all sorts of disruption and could have been...

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Again, I am very pleased with that response; but what would you do if a senior officer of TfL misleads people and institutions in terms of the information they are providing? What would you suggest Mr Kiley does with that senior officer?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

I was just thinking that the Tories keep on about linking congestion charging with air quality, and it is like picking at a scab: they have lost the fight with their own voters on this. Tory boroughs - [Interruption.] People in their boroughs want the congestion charge. [A Member: "How do you know?"] From a poll recently. The congestion charge report from this Assembly clearly stated that air quality would not be significantly improved, and that is why we need low emission zones in London. It is not an either/or situation: we need both congestion charging and LEZs. Perhaps the...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

I wondered whether you could clear up a little difficulty I have with the air quality strategy - the fact that you did not give sufficient detail about incineration. Now that the Conservative party manifesto for London clearly sets out a moratorium on incineration, are we going to be able to write to my friend Eddie Lister at Kensington and Chelsea and say that these Conservative boroughs that have pushed through incineration to communities that clearly do not want it - in Bexley, for instance - should now listen to the communities on which they are imposing incineration? This is...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

Thank you for that response. Today we are more concerned with your draft air quality strategy than your draft transport strategy, and we would look to have some sort of agreement between the different strategies you write. You may have noticed that yesterday the ALG told us that, as a result of congestion charging, there would be at best only exceptionally modest reductions in the most serious traffic-emitted pollutants, and at worst no change or even modest deterioration outside the congestion charge zone. Does this not show that once again you are being a zone 1 Mayor?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 23 May 2001

You have raised there the issue of extending the zone into Kensington and Chelsea, and when you came to speak to us at the Environment Committee, you talked about having the zone around Heathrow as well. We also know that there have been requests from councils in east London - Newham and Tower Hamlets - perhaps to be included in the zone; and there have been requests from Camden for appropriate money to put traffic calming measures into the part of the borough that is not included in the zone. With all these plans to expand the congestion charge zone...

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Can you assess how far they will be dealing with congestion charge problems? Is that in the service level agreement?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

This Transport for London police force - will they be wearing distinctive uniforms, like the American Highway Patrol?