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• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Therefore you are actually putting it up to help fill a deficit. ... To balance the books. As the penalty revenue falls you are predicting a deficit.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Staying on the subject of revenue from Congestion Charging - is not the problem for TfL that they foresee a huge drop in the amount of revenue from Congestion Charging as people learn to manoeuvre themselves through the rather Byzantine payment system, whereby you will be getting less penalty money? Is not the whole point of jacking it up from £5 to £8 actually to make a start on filling the deficit that TfL has actually prophesied itself?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What about the public inquiry the ALG has called for, a cross-party call to you?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Can I ask about one other aspect? Recently, there was a call from the Association of London Government (ALG), a cross-party call, for a pause in this whole rolling out of the Congestion Charge westwards, and to allow for a public inquiry to take place, not least because we understand, and you yourself went on record to say that some very interesting trial work was being done on tag and beacon. Would it not be better to pause before you put all these cameras in and have a public inquiry to look at where we are on this whole issue?

• Reference: 2005/0092-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

On the Transport for London website, there is no obvious link to information on the Congestion Charge. The information can only be accessed by clicking the 'Travel Information' link, and then Congestion Charging appears in the sub-menu. Given the importance of this to so many people, would it not be better to have a more immediately visible direct link on the Transport for London Home Page, and can the Mayor put pressure on TfL to rectify this?

• Reference: 2005/0093-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

The No. 24 buses are regularly arriving at Pimlico in pairs, and also leaving the Grosvenor Road terminal at very irregular intervals, often only a minute or two apart, followed by a long gap. The reason for this, as explained by a driver, is that there is no control to ensure a regular service, and drivers arriving late at the terminal start the return journey at once to try to stick to the schedule, even if another bus has just left or is about to depart. This is obviously not meeting the Mayor's objective of a quality service. Can anything...

• Reference: 2005/0094-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What response has Mr Kiley got to the ALG cross party call for a public enquiry into the extension of the Congestion Charge?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

We all appreciate that there are huge question marks over the performance of Capita. What about the pressure on the finances? Are you happy, for instance, that, I think, the budget now says something like £25 million to be spent on further preparatory work in the western area in the forthcoming budget year? Is that money, in your view, that is well spent on this particular priority?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Where would you put the extension in terms of your list of priorities? Is it a high priority, a medium, or should it be a low priority at this time?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Since Mr Kiley is with us this morning, I think it is a shame to waste the opportunity to put a few questions to him. I wondered, Mr Kiley, if I could ask you what your opinion is on whether or not the westward extension of the Congestion Charge zone should be a priority at this time, given all the other pressures on the finances?