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• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Therefore, the Mayor was wholly misleading us?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

That was very interesting, but perhaps we can get back to the matter in hand, which is the board. How many times has the TfL board voted against one of your proposals?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I chair the Assembly's Budget Committee and I was quite taken aback by a comment made by the Mayor at the December Budget Committee that an undertaking was given to you when you were appointed that you would have the right of veto over the appointment of board members. My first question is to ask whether or not that statement was accurate. Furthermore, it also strikes me a bit odd to put you in a position as chief executive, where you could turn around to a board member and say, `Well I am pretty tired of this criticism you are...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Would it not be true to say that regardless of no one keeping track, the board has never voted against a proposal of yours or the Mayor's to the extent that you have lost?

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Does that mean the veto does not exist?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

However, your Chairman loves freebies; that is a big difference, is it not? When we asked him about it he said he could recall that you had opposed it but he could not recall why you had opposed it, which suggests either your reasons were so insignificant he could not remember them, or they were so significant that he was unwilling to share them with us. Could you share them with us now?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

For the record, there has been at least one decision where the board made its decision on a casting vote of the Mayor. That does not indicate a cosy relationship in which the board is appointed, but not to exercise its powers.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Just to take an example, what was your advice to the board on free travel for under-18s?

• Reference: 2005/0099-1
• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Following the Spending Review 2004 announcement, were your views sought or given on which schemes should proceed within the available funding? Did you express a view that lower risk schemes such as the major A406 schemes in Barnet, which have cleared all planning and legal requirements, should be given priority over higher risk schemes which are still subject to consultation and public inquiry? If not, do you consider this would have been prudent advice?

• Reference: 2005/0100-1
• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Although a capacity increase of 20% resulting from the revised TfL scheme for Bounds Green was discussed at the meeting between the Mayor and borough representatives on 3 February 2005, TfL now appear to have no knowledge of this. Would you agree that it is vital for local residents to be told exactly what increase in capacity the TfL scheme will deliver, not least to help them understand whether the scheme offers value for money? Do you know what percentage increase in capacity will be delivered by the scheme and are you willing to quote this figure publicly?