• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

How long is Mr Kiley likely to stay with us in London? It has been said that, since he departed from Boston, the system there has already deteriorated - which seems to suggest that we need him around to ensure that the thing continues to work well. Do you have any idea how long he is committed to staying with us?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Most of us, anyway, hope that you are right. I cannot say that I am terribly reassured to know that this all depends on the warmth of the Prime Minister's smile and the brotherly love for which the Labour party is so renowned, as you know better than anyone. I do have a serious concern that personality difficulties will become even more important than policy differences. I should like some reassurance from you about what you are going to do to try to ensure that personality difficulties do not get in the way of improving London's transport.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

You have rightly acknowledged many times, including today, that your re-election for a second term, if you want it, depends on the public perception that you have been successful in improving London's transport. The Prime Minister made it astonishingly clear that he did not want you to have a first term. Why do you think he and his Government are going to help you to get your second term?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Can you clarify when? Right now, I think there is danger around, and I am angry, as you are, about this hanging around waiting when the management are discredited; and I do not think that we can afford to wait.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Indeed. I noted that you said - I may be misquoting you here, Ken - that you thought that a catastrophe might not be far away. I share your concerns, because it is clear to everyone who has been travelling on the Tube to Westminster, as I have since I was elected, that there is an increase in the failure rate. The stats will not be with me to support that until next week, but that is my understanding thus far. Therefore, if you already have legal advice that you can go to court to make the Government reveal the...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

I have two questions rolled into one. First, at a previous Question Time, when you were quizzed on this following the leaked letter from the Health and Safety Executive, you made it clear that you would be, not necessarily happy but content, if the HSE were to sign off the safety case as they are required to: you would consider that to be a valid form of verification that it appeared to be a safe-running system. You seem to have resiled from that - I think that is the word people use nowadays. I would like your comment on that...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

My question was not how long it has taken but, will he sign it tomorrow?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

One of the reasons that the Deputy Prime Minister gave on television for not disclosing information to Bob Kiley was that he had not even signed his contract yet. You said in the Commons debate on Monday that you expected him to sign his contract tomorrow. Is that still your expectation?

• Question by: Trevor Phillips
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

The minutes are dated the 20th.

• Question by: Louise Bloom
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Which kind of proves my point. I am interested in making sure that we get the views of people who are not necessarily on committees and stakeholders and all the rest. I am interested in getting on the Round Table ordinary Londoners, so that, rather than having, say, the sustainability expert from Friends of the Earth, we should have a member of Friends of the Earth from Barnet who is interested in sustainability. That is what I am getting at - the whole principle of sustainability is bottom-up rather than top-down. How are we going to make sure that it...