Search questions

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Finally, given that you have milestones and key milestones and a set date to achieve it, would it not have been better to have set up bonus payments rather than contingency sums, given that is going to be the name of the game - getting to key stages at key times at critical points? Clearly we would rather be giving them money for achieving that, rather than spending their time making those claims, which invariably half the building trade does.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

Sir Roy, if we accept the Government figures as the upper limits to the expenditure on the Olympics, I think the key thing is the management of the contingencies. I am worried that we find ourselves in contracts with contractors who then spend most of their time making claims for the contingencies. They are very generous; about 60% of the build costs. I have certainly had that experience of managing projects myself. What do you have lined up in the procurement arrangements with contractors which make sure they focus and achieve the milestones, rather than putting in the estimators to...

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 25 April 2007

You have mentioned the Cabinet Committees that are keeping an eye on this. Surely the building contract and the legality of that will supersede anything that they can decide about which contingency sums can be drawn from or not.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Looking ahead, what changes could you envisage on the board as and when TfL takes on the responsibility for rail services, particularly over a geographic area beyond London?

• Reference: 2005/0026-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

How confident are you of funding for Crossrail? How are you going to limit the impact of construction on the local business and residential communities in central London? What are the outstanding planning issues? .... Moving on to Crossrail, earlier you alluded to the historic levels of investment we are getting into London's transport infrastructure, and this really would be the icing on the cake having the Crossrail investment put in. Where are we with the funding in light of what the Montague Report was saying in the context of today?

• Reference: 2005/0020-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What action is TfL taking to tackle the low success rate in enforcement of foreign vehicles who do not pay the congestion charge?

• Reference: 2005/0035-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

How would you see the TfL Board needing to change as the Government expands the role of the authority to cover some rail services outside London?

• Reference: 2005/0037-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What are you doing to ensure that TfL employees are all treated with respect by the organisation?

• Reference: 2005/0060-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

How can the Bakerloo service between Queen's Park and Harrow be improved when this part of the line is outside the PPP?

• Reference: 2005/0061-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Residents along the North London Line in Brent are complaining of the effect of vibrations from freight trains on the properties. How could the transfer of the line to TfL help?