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Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [13]

  • 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?

Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [12]

  • Question by: John Biggs
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
But clearly in law you can't delegate or whatever your fiduciary responsibility.

Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [11]

  • 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?

Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [10]

  • 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?

Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [9]

  • 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.

Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [8]

  • Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
At the end of the day you sold Londoners a line -- that actually the basis for the whole campaign, all that lovely money spent on your pictures, was all about the Underground, which anyway is only part of London at the end of the day. But the whole thing was part of your campaign to get the right system for it. We've Mr Kiley and all the expensive people he's brought with him and all the rest of it. Did you ever envisage that this government would give in? Or were you then quite certain that all your attempts...

Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [7]

  • Question by: Eric Ollerenshaw
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
The problem we've got, Ken, is that in the model for running the tube you said you'd have an increase of 17% capacity. That was going to be the basis for your improvements. You've also said if PPP goes ahead then there's going to be no improvements on those lines for 10 to 20 years, which therefore means the whole transport policy, the model you developed, is completely upside down. So wouldn't it be time to re-draft the whole thing, rather than to try and add on things and hope ministers are going to take one or two amendments here...

Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [6]

  • Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
So what's the role that the Board plays then in the governance of TfL?

Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [5]

  • Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
So what's your test of failure?

Failure of the Transport Strategy (Supplementary) [4]

  • Question by: Lord Duvall of Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich OBE
  • Meeting date: 05 September 2001
Can we turn to implementation of the strategy? Are you not -- by your own admission in the past you've been " someone who has a light touch on certain officers. Are you not slightly concerned about Mr Kiley"s restructuring, planning and integration and the blurring of edges within TfL?
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