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• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

If I could dwell on examples, there has been some press speculation about the quota of business-class or first-class transatlantic flights that are afforded to you. There has been speculation about the catering bills; some cuttings from the Evening Standard suggest you are fed to a far higher standard than humble Assembly Members, for example. There has been other stuff like that, and I suppose it may be viewed as nosiness but I guess there is an aspect of public interest as to what perks there are around your employment and whether there is a transparency and understanding about those.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Can you let me know how many other individual consultants in your time have been paid more than £3,000 a day and on what sort of basis while you have been Commissioner?

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

You had a new roof, but obviously that has to be fixed. Nevertheless, £108,000 for external maintenance seems a huge sum even if you had a new roof and had it painted twice.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

During the time that you have been resident at the house, there have been various expenditures on it. I believe the total, if my information is correct, comes to just over £138,000. Some of that has been external work and some of that has been internal work, but that does seem to be an inordinately large sum considering that when the house was purchased it was described as being restored and modernised to an exceptionally high standard.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

I really want to pick up on what Roger Evans has just said. You mentioned the inevitability of disagreements between professionals; absolutely, that is par for the course. What I wanted to know was, apart from when your contract was renewed a year ago, were lawyers involved in the achievement of this recent settlement?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

On your own admission just now, you have made clear that the transport system is not ideal. We have a situation here where people are being asked to pay not only a 60% increase, but with the western extension, TfL's own economic impact assessment makes clear that there will be a reduction in lunch-time customers for restaurants, shift-workers such as cleaners will suffer, `retailers may close down', `retailers may relocate', and delivery costs will be passed to customers. Are you not at all concerned about the disastrous impact of the Congestion Charge and the western extension over the next few...

• Reference: 2005/0139-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Do you think there is any scope to improve the accountability of TfL to Londoners and, if so, how would you suggest this can be achieved?

• Reference: 2005/0140-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

In your view how successful has the PPP been since its inception, has it delivered value for money, and how do you see the way forward? ... Following on from that I have a simple question. If PPP is deemed not to be worth it, what alternative is there? Is there a viable alternative?