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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

I do not want to rake over answers you have given already, but at the last Mayor's Question Time, the Mayor described that it was asserted ' I think it was an Evening Standard story ' that there had been a bust-up between you and him about the fate or future or proposals of Jay Walder (Managing Director, Finance and Planning, TfL). He described that as being rubbish and piffle. Would you use similar words to describe that or was the Mayor being less than open with us on that matter?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Is there a fundamental disagreement between yourself and Mr Walder on an aspect of strategy which was instrumental in your decision to hang up your boots?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

I have one other question about your management style. Perhaps you can put the record straight on this, because the press can be very wounding. There have been allegations on the one hand that you are a dreadful control freak and that nothing has happened in TfL without you blocking it or running it over your desk; on the other hand, there have been various scurrilous allegations that in fact you have been almost negligent in your role and are barely in the office, that you have a cardboard cut-out there, for example, and nothing really happens. Can you clarify...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

I understand what you have said, and I need not recap it. This is a challenging job but a lot has been done, but there is still more to do. There is much that you could be judged proud of and you are clearly anxious to be still in the policy and the strategic decisions, so to move to a consultant role was a slightly unnatural one for you. I assume that was your state of mind when you signed the new contract: that you were still up for it and ready to go.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

When you decided that you would leave this particular role, did you just go into the Mayor and say, `I am going'? Was there a negotiation?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

What about free travel on the buses for under-16s? We know, because you told us before, that you had some concerns about that. When you were last here you told us that you did not agree with freebies. In retrospect, were you right to disagree with the Mayor about that?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Of course. That comment you made about encouraging people to travel for free, are you saying that you think it might encourage fare evasion once people get older than 16?

• Reference: 2006/0001-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Please explain the reasons for your leaving TfL at an earlier date than anticipated by your engagement. Sally Hamwee (Chair): Thank you very much for all of that. We will follow the order, which is on the order paper. The first question is to ask about your reasons for leaving. I think Geoff Pope for the Liberal Democrats is going to kick off. Geoff Pope (AM): Good morning, Mr Kiley. May I start by, on behalf of the Liberal Democrats on the London Assembly, congratulating you on your leadership over the last five years to set a clear direction for...

• Reference: 2006/0002-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

What are the financial and other terms of the termination of your engagement to which TfL have agreed? The Mayor has informed the Assembly that you will be paid salary and bonuses up to 31 January 2006 and a final (additional) payment of £745,000. As the contractual benefits to which you have been entitled will presumably apply to that date, please list them (excluding the house you occupy, dealt with at Question 4).

• Reference: 2006/0003-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

The Mayor has announced that you are to be engaged as consultant to him, as Chair of TfL, and to his advisers, and will be available to the new Commissioner and senior TfL staff for 90 days in each of 2006 and 2007 and 50 days in the period 1 January to 30 June 2008; and that your consultancy remuneration has been agreed at an average daily rate of £3,200. Please confirm the principal provisions of the consultancy and explain whether the remuneration is £3,200 per day actually worked, together with the other financial terms and benefits (excluding those dealt...