• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Do you have a policy officer leading on youth matters for the young people here today?

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

The New Deal Trust are putting in about ?200,000 a year and have bought two new buses, but they are still negotiating with Transport for London for it to have these concessions - even if it is not part of the agreed Transport for London network. If you are willing to back that, it will be very welcome locally for many of the elderly residents of Shoreditch in particular, who really need a better transport system.

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Thank you. I am aware that negotiations are still ongoing between Transport for London and the Shoreditch New Deal Trust, and I understand why some of those points are being negotiated. However, it seems a bit mean-spirited not to allow daily Travelcards to be used on a bus that is going to be serving a very important local need; and further, not allowing the bus to use the Angel bus stop. Do you have any comments on that?

• Question by: Nicky Gavron
• Meeting date: 15 November 2000

Thank you. The reason I asked this question is that, without good data and intelligence, we are going to be unable to do what we need to do for London. What I am after is a geographical information system which allows one to look at any map on any scale, two-dimensionally and - we need the software to do it - three-dimensionally. That means that we can look at any part of any neighbourhood. Also, we should be able - this is all possible - to link with it all the information we currently have and will get from the...

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

Hopefully, this will be my last intervention today. [Cries of "Hear, hear.".] I am glad we have unity on that issue. The question is about giving Bob Kiley the tools to do his job. In the last answer you gave on the PPP, about 10 minutes ago, you seemed to make it clear that the only alternative for improving the Underground would be further Government spending. At the same time, you seemed to be making it clear that you were going to take the Government to the High Court next week to challenge them on their disclosure of information. I...

• 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...