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• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

If I could dwell on examples, there has been some press speculation about the quota of business-class or first-class transatlantic flights that are afforded to you. There has been speculation about the catering bills; some cuttings from the Evening Standard suggest you are fed to a far higher standard than humble Assembly Members, for example. There has been other stuff like that, and I suppose it may be viewed as nosiness but I guess there is an aspect of public interest as to what perks there are around your employment and whether there is a transparency and understanding about those.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

You had a new roof, but obviously that has to be fixed. Nevertheless, £108,000 for external maintenance seems a huge sum even if you had a new roof and had it painted twice.

• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

During the time that you have been resident at the house, there have been various expenditures on it. I believe the total, if my information is correct, comes to just over £138,000. Some of that has been external work and some of that has been internal work, but that does seem to be an inordinately large sum considering that when the house was purchased it was described as being restored and modernised to an exceptionally high standard.

• Reference: 2005/0140-1
• Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

In your view how successful has the PPP been since its inception, has it delivered value for money, and how do you see the way forward? ... Following on from that I have a simple question. If PPP is deemed not to be worth it, what alternative is there? Is there a viable alternative?

• Reference: 2005/0039-1
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What is being done to eliminate stair-based access at TfL/mainline interchanges? And in particular what plans are there to address the lack of stairfree access between Lewisham DLR and Platform 1 at Lewisham Station?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

Chair, maybe we could have cross-party support and a few people from the Transport Committee to do a constructive response to you to give you an insight of how we see it and some of the problems we see from this side of the table.