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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.

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Looking ahead, what changes could you envisage on the board as and when TfL takes on the responsibility for rail services, particularly over a geographic area beyond London?

• Reference: 2005/0026-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

How confident are you of funding for Crossrail? How are you going to limit the impact of construction on the local business and residential communities in central London? What are the outstanding planning issues? .... Moving on to Crossrail, earlier you alluded to the historic levels of investment we are getting into London's transport infrastructure, and this really would be the icing on the cake having the Crossrail investment put in. Where are we with the funding in light of what the Montague Report was saying in the context of today?

• 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: 2005/0020-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What action is TfL taking to tackle the low success rate in enforcement of foreign vehicles who do not pay the congestion charge?

• Reference: 2005/0035-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

How would you see the TfL Board needing to change as the Government expands the role of the authority to cover some rail services outside London?

• Reference: 2005/0037-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

What are you doing to ensure that TfL employees are all treated with respect by the organisation?

• Reference: 2005/0060-1
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

How can the Bakerloo service between Queen's Park and Harrow be improved when this part of the line is outside the PPP?