• Question by: Len Duvall 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: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

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

• Question by: Len Duvall 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.

• 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...

• 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...

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

So what's the role that the Board plays then in the governance of TfL?