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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?

• 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: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Does that mean the veto does not exist?

• Reference: 2005/0120-1
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

How are negotiations for a road improvement scheme and urban green space for Purley Cross progressing?

• Reference: 2005/0121-1
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

When will Purley get its trams (back)?

• Reference: 2005/0123-1
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What are the economics of extending the Tram down to Purley, especially in the context of a fairly good train service from Croydon to Purley?

• Reference: 2005/0124-1
• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Rather than going down the Brighton Road to Purley, would a tram via Purley Way from Croydon to Purley open up more rejuvenation opportunities for jobs in Purley Way and for the less privileged communities of Waddon and Roundshaw, as well as providing new public transport opportunities?