• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

So do you see the riverboat system more as for tourists then, than for the use of regular commuters, which, if you do, I think is rather a shame when that would be a useful addition to the congestion charging strategy, to encourage people to use the riverboats. I believe back as far as 1993 there were about 3,000 people using the riverboats every day when there were more heavy subsidies than we get at the moment.

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

Thank you for that. You mentioned the use of travel pass, but is it not the case that on the riverboats Travel Card holders only actually get a one-third reduction and surely there would be better use of the service if the riverboats counted in on the travel pass, the same as the buses and tubes. Would that not encourage more people to use the service?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

Do you think 0.2% actually may well run to quite a few millions in terms of budget, probably more than you're going to collect off your congestion charge? And it will all be because the Mayor of London who gets support from yet another strike on the Underground and so this time we will know you're in total support of RMT, total support of that strike and then when people cannot use those tubes on that day, they can justifiably blame you as the Mayor.

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

So the expertise on the Board isn't being fully utilised in developing or implementing the strategy?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

Just following Len, Are you satisfied, as a board member, that you and the other board members have an adequate day to day oversight and control of the affairs of TfL? I've one other little question.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

The other side of this question is have you yet agreed Bob Kiley's performance criteria for his 100% bonus?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

But clearly in law you can't delegate or whatever your fiduciary responsibility.

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

Could you tell us then how often the Board has discussed the finances of TfL?

• Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

And the role of the board in corporate financial government?

• Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

I'm not sure that was in your manifesto. As I remember it when the campaign was on, I don't remember you saying those kind of things or indeed having pretty pictures of those kind of things.