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• Reference: 2007/0041-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

What does London need more: the London Development Agency or Crossrail?

• 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: 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?

• Reference: 2005/0321-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

The LDA offered a firm in Marshgate Lane a site in Leyton to relocate to. The LDA bought the Leyton site a year ago at £886,667 per acre. They are now asking £1.1 million per acre. That's an increase in value of 24%. One of the companies in East London being forced to relocate bought their current site at Marshgate Lane in 2000 for £1.075 million and spent £300,000 on various improvements, making a total cost of just under £1.4 million. The LDA have offered £1.5 million for it, five years later. So the LDA are saying The Marshgate Lane...

• 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?