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  • Terms of the termination of your engagement to which TfL have agreed. (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2006
    Sally Hamwee (Chair): I explained when I wrote to you ' I think it was before Christmas ' that we would ask about the financial details because it is a very particular, very unusual position that you are in, very much one of public interest. John Biggs (AM): The question was to ask you for a list of the contractual benefits to which you are entitled up to 31 January. Could you tell us how many crates of claret, how many rooms at the Savoy, how many transatlantic flights, how many gold-plated telephones you get as part of your contract?

  • Terms of the termination of your engagement to which TfL have agreed. (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2006
    I was a little uneasy about this question, but I was allocated a lead role on it. Perhaps some of my less pleasant colleagues would like to follow it through. It seems to me that we have a perfect right under the Access to Information legislation to ask formal questions of TfL and the Mayor to which we get formal answers. I suppose underlying this is a concern that down the years that TfL has not been the most transparent organisation in the world. I guess that the contract of its Chief Executive could be seen as the apex of...

  • Provisions of Consultancy (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2006
    If you felt that you were surplus to requirements and that you did not have a useful role to play at TfL, might you consider terminating your consultancy sooner rather than later?

  • Provisions of Consultancy (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2006
    You obviously bring undoubted expertise in this consultancy role, but what might you be doing that Peter Hendy would be incapable of doing?

  • Reasons for your leaving TfL (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2006
    I do not want to rake over answers you have given already, but at the last Mayor's Question Time, the Mayor described that it was asserted ' I think it was an Evening Standard story ' that there had been a bust-up between you and him about the fate or future or proposals of Jay Walder (Managing Director, Finance and Planning, TfL). He described that as being rubbish and piffle. Would you use similar words to describe that or was the Mayor being less than open with us on that matter?

  • Reasons for your leaving TfL (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2006
    Is there a fundamental disagreement between yourself and Mr Walder on an aspect of strategy which was instrumental in your decision to hang up your boots?

  • Reasons for your leaving TfL (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 18 January 2006
    I have one other question about your management style. Perhaps you can put the record straight on this, because the press can be very wounding. There have been allegations on the one hand that you are a dreadful control freak and that nothing has happened in TfL without you blocking it or running it over your desk; on the other hand, there have been various scurrilous allegations that in fact you have been almost negligent in your role and are barely in the office, that you have a cardboard cut-out there, for example, and nothing really happens. Can you clarify...

  • Extension to Victoria Underground Lines Southwards to Herne Hill (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    On the West London Tram, will there be an additional large pot of money to tackle traffic reduction and rat-running, as we saw with Congestion Charging, not only an important measure but an important measure in terms of building public confidence before the scheme goes ahead?

  • Extension to Victoria Underground Lines Southwards to Herne Hill (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Darren Johnson
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    Has the budget been earmarked for that as part of the overall budget provisions?

  • PPP (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    With these debates about the Congestion Charge, PPP and so on, there is a danger of having a lot of heat and not much light. The existing transport strategy, the one that was consulted on several years ago, puts forward a strategy as an alternative for the PPP. Time has now passed and the PPP is now in operation, but I think we recognise that it has flaws and that it may not actually reach the end of its 30-year life. Is it not time for TfL in a cool and considered way to start to develop an alternative strategy...