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• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

You've also been talking in recent days about your concern about the arrival of the tube in the hands of TfL and that you don't feel you're going to be getting the money from the Government that you'll need to meet some of the costs attached to it such as the Jubilee Line extension, is that correct?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

It does seem rather unfortunate that TfL was sitting on a lot of money, which it couldn't spend. How did that arise in the first place?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Does that mean that you will be making up for what you weren't able to spend the money on?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Just one last question. Presumably you will have to meet some expenses. Whether or not you've won a case against the Government, which of your priorities in transport may have to slip in order to find the money to make some of the improvements or at least keep the Tube running as all of us wish you would? Is it your wonderful buses that are going to have to move into second place? There must be something that will have to give in order for TfL to be able to take up its responsibility.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

So, Londoners find themselves between a rock and a hard place really, don't they? What do you think Londoners will think; between you and the Labour Government they're being left with this huge, unknown problem facing all of us, and an Underground that continues to get worse?

• Reference: 2001/0166-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

Given that you lost the PPP court case do you accept that your Transport Strategy needs to be completely rewritten and that all the promises you made to Londoners for delivering improvements to the ailing transport system are now, just 3 months after the strategy launch, meaningless `empty promises'? .

• Reference: 2001/0133-1
• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

What performance benchmarks did you establish before starting your improvements to the first 27 bus routes and how were these met or exceeded so as to justify your recent announcement extending the scheme to another 43 routes? .

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

Would you agree that this sudden 'step-in right' business smacks a little bit of last minute panic to try and get around this issue of safety, that at least they're now recognising the fact that this is an issue which they haven't perhaps properly addressed in the past?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

I wanted to actually focus attention on safety, but first, perhaps I'll just ask you, do you think it's a little bit sad, Mr Livingstone, that the Labour Party has to hide behind the sort of disclaimer that you find on the bottom of almost any document provided by companies like accountants asked to look into shady dealings?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 September 2001

I'm interested in your reaction to this new move by Mr Byers on safety, these so-called, 'step-in rights.' Mr Kiley said yesterday that he'd be interested in looking at the proposals. Has he been given the opportunity to do that yet, or anybody else in TfL? If so, what does he think of them? What do you expect of them, and do you think they'll go any way at all to allay your concerns about the safety issue?