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

Was it your suggestion, the sums of money you were going to acquire as a consultant and the one-off payment? If you add up the sums, as far as we know, you will be earning in the first two years just as much as you were before, but working less. Was that your terms or was that the Mayor's terms?

• 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: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

How will that work on the PPP? It is critical that that is renegotiated for the benefit of Londoners. You will be developing your thoughts and providing advice, but then your contract ends some two years before the actual negotiations. When the Mayor announced your position, he made it quite clear that the renegotiations for the PPP would be one of your key roles.

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

Without your line responsibility, you will be able to get much more done in 90 days. When we take on board the fact that you said you had built the world's best management team for transport, it is starting to feel as though it is getting a bit overcrowded with expertise and the best guys around at the top there. We are concerned about this. Is there not a risk that the role of Commissioner, which was obviously important in the early days, is now getting rather squeezed?

• 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?

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

I am interested to know what made you change your mind compared with a year ago and now. What has happened?

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

Do you regret the timing of this, coming at the same time as we have this large fare increase? Many Londoners are upset with the 10% or more increase at the same time as the sums of money that you are being provided with are being highlighted. Was that not bad timing?

• 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: 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?