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• Reference: 2013/0021-1
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 09 October 2013

In seeking to bear down on fares and help finance new infrastructure projects, please assess the relative importance of bearing down on TfL costs and uncovering fresh revenue streams.

• Reference: 2012/0006-1
• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

In electing you Mayor of London, Londoners were endorsing a number of policies that will require Government support. How will you persuade the Government to accept the policies for which Londoners voted?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

This question is about a matter that was not the fault of London Underground, but I would like to hear whether you have received assurances of compensation from Thames Water for flooding the Tube a couple of weeks ago?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Thank you. Perhaps I could just go through one or two of the policies and look at some of the specific policies that were in your manifesto. I guess the one that most Londoners would find most important is that to try to deal and indeed to cut down on the number of strikes that are happening. You and the Commissioner have already talked about the bus strike but, frankly, that is one that I understand was brought about by only a third of the members of the union voting for the strike and taking part in the ballot. We...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

Could I take up one point with you on the whole relative costs of salaries and so on? Mr Higgins, you, I think, serve with seven other directors on the ODA, receiving pretty substantial salaries. Indeed, I believe you, this last year, did forego half of your bonus until 2012. Would it be reasonable for you and your fellow directors to consider foregoing your complete bonus until you have finished the job, and then receive whatever you are entitled to, through the success you have achieved?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

The Mayor, of course, has an aspiration that, wherever possible, the officials should use public transport. Now the media are in Bloomsbury, I believe, near the bullet train, so will they use that? Many of the officials will be close to the Central line. Will they use that?