• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

I hope you are going to be perhaps a little bit more involved in the London Plan in the future. One thing that concerns me and perhaps other members about the London Plan is this: you clearly have not been consulted by the Mayor on the basic underlying assumptions behind the Plan.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 28 February 2001

I am not sure that a fall of 6%, or even of 50%, is all that reassuring. We would all want to hear that it was a fall of 100%. So I return to my original question: can we investigate whether the safety training is adequate and up to date?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 28 February 2001

Are you aware that, according to ASLEF, there is a considerable backlog in drivers receiving the training necessary to attain their safety-critical licences; and that those licences have to be regularly updated? Will you investigate this apparent conflict between the information that you have been given - presumably by London Underground - and the information that we have been given by ASLEF? Are you aware that, in recent incidents, six London Underground drivers were suspended for apparently passing signals at red? Again, that seems to conflict with the answer that you have been given, so we both need to investigate...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Did you go through a competitive tender for the appointment to the position?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

If I were a developer I would be thinking, "Right, well the Mayor has appointed a man who quite likes the idea of building some high buildings in his private practice - the Mayor presumably would not have appointed you if you were completely against high buildings - if I were to appoint the Richard Rogers Partnership to be on my side for a planning application then I am quite likely to get the Mayor to agree". It is this sort of level of links that worry me and other members of the Assembly in terms of conflict of interest.

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

Do you not also agree, perhaps you do not agree, but in developing certain policies, let's say for argument sake that you helped to develop a policy on high buildings for the Mayor, that that could help your partnership which has a reputation in that direction to capture some of the market? You would benefit by having both been a Mayoral advisor and having that kudos, and by helping to develop policies in that area. Is it really as simple as you are making out, that there is a cut off point at which you have to take out your...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 11 July 2001