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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

It's not about being unhappy; it's about transparency for Londoners and their money being paid for highly remunerated employees who are doing an excellent job, in many cases. I would like to ask about evaluating what the proper package for those employees is. A lot of companies - and I think it's a flawed process in the private sector - have a Remuneration Committee which evaluates the pay and, usually, it tends to be people who have probably met down at the golf club and agreed how much to pay each other. Do you not agree that for a public...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

This has hidden behind a cloak of confidentiality in the past.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

I don't think that's a very straight answer. The question is about whether it is reasonable for Londoners to have the same transparency on the packages enjoyed by senior executives of Transport for London, as the shareholders do of the senior executives at Thames Water. I think that's the question, not whether the remuneration is too high. I don't have any problem at all with Bob Kiley being paid what he is paid, if he is perceived at the end of his job, to have delivered. Are you happy with the concept of transparency in publishing those figures? You said...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

Are you happy to publish that information?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 October 2002

As and when you are responsible for the Underground, if there was a strike, would you facilitate workers who didn't want to participate in that, coming to work?

• Reference: 2002/0018-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Why does it take up to 8 months to reprogramme a traffic light? .

• Reference: 2002/0013-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

In light of the recommendation of the Commission for Integrated Transport that road pricing should be based on GPS technology, does the Mayor regret having committed himself to a camera based congestion charge scheme for London? .

• Reference: 2002/0016-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

In light of the problems caused by a minority of young passengers, will the Mayor consider applying his transport policing initiative to bus routes in areas that would otherwise have routes temporarily withdrawn due to hooliganism? .

• Reference: 2002/0019-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

Do you believe your `bus revolution" is sustainable? .

• Reference: 2002/0020-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 March 2002

When will you issue `advice & guidance" to the SRA? .