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• Reference: 2004/0053-1
• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

What consideration has TfL given to promoting a citywide partnership to improve road safety across London? .

• Reference: 2004/0054-1
• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

What progress has been made on proposal 4G.22 contained the Mayor's Transport Strategy, which commits to working with TfL to establish and investment programme to implement new signing initiatives .

• Reference: 2004/0055-1
• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

What work is being undertaken to establish the impact that bad street nameplate maintenance has on people with visual impairments? Are there any plans to sample the quality of street nameplate across London? .

• Reference: 2004/0056-1
• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 14 January 2004

What is being done to assess the impact that bad street nameplate design, positioning and maintenance has on emergency vehicles responding to emergency calls? .

• Reference: 2003/0311
• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

With rising land values in London, what contingency funding is available to support increasing costs associated with identified, prioritized and necessary infrastructure projects, such as station improvements, that will enhance the Olympic bid? .

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 15 October 2003

Thank you for that. Clearly, there is a great deal of private sector support for the Olympic bid. I know the London Business Board is very much behind what is happening. Can you tell us what discussions there have been with the private sector about either PPP arrangements for contributing or helping with the Olympics in general, and, more specifically, in terms of private sector involvement in funding improvements for the general street environment in time for 2012?

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

I do think it is important that you are explicit about what precisely you feel is wrong with the contracts. You have expressed at various times concerns about safety. You've expressed concerns about the value for money of these contracts. As Labour politicians - and I believe Labour colleagues in Government wouldn't wish to pursue anything that was unsafe or which was not value for money - I think the onus is upon you to spell out what precisely are your concerns on these questions, in the light of the information that you now have in respect of the contracts...

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Ken, we're not asking what your alternative is, we're asking for what your concerns are about these contracts. Why is it that you think it is appropriate to be renewing Underground trains, which are very expensive and which are still perfectly fine? You express horror that Jubilee Line trains weren't going to be replaced until I forget which date it was, but Jubilee Line trains are perfectly comfortable, don't seem to be a particular problem. What exactly is the difficulty here?

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Can I just emphasise how important that is. This debate has been characterised by many people, including yourself, as being about soundbites from different people. You criticised the Government, colleagues around this table from different parties, for making assertions. You claimed that Government ministers don't know what's in the contracts. If that is your claim the onus must be on you to provide that information, and frankly we've been waiting a very long time for it. I'm quite happy to wait until just after Easter to have those precise statements, but it is very, very important that that is when...

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

If there are delays then you have also contributed to them with some of the fairly pointless court actions and threats of court actions that have taken place. Can I just question one of the points that you made there? You said that Bob Kiley was a cautious person, and therefore would not be prepared to go into print with some of the assertions that you, yourself have been making. Does that mean that actually you're running ahead of Bob Kiley, your Transport Commissioner, in your assertions about the problems with these contracts?