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• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

That is a relief to colleagues, no doubt. I also welcome your undertaking to publish TfL's audit reports in future. As you say, in the past you have given the Audit Committee minutes to the lead Members. Nonetheless, I know that when I have asked for audit reports from TfL as a result of having read those minutes, the people at TfL have told me that I could not have them, their implication being that the reports would have to be written differently if they were going to be public property. Will you undertake to make the reports available as...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Are you expecting him to do this work from London or from America?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Then the Mayor is the Chair and you are the Mayor's nominee, effectively for this purpose?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

You said you were seeing Bob Kiley on Friday to talk about what he might do. Can we get this clear for the record? Is [Bob] Kiley working for you or is he working for the Mayor?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Then you are washing your hands of this rather awkward and minor business?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

A feature of the ballots that we have seen recently is that fewer than half of the people eligible to vote have taken part, and even fewer of the people who voted for industrial action have then taken part in the action that they sanctioned themselves. Do you think participation is a problem? Do you agree with me that it is a disgrace that a small number of people ' a couple of hundred militants ' can disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of Londoners by bringing Tube lines to a halt?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

Which might suggest that the trade union's membership would benefit from a higher level of participation within their union. Is there anything that TfL can do to improve participation and therefore to make this business a bit more democratic and less volatile?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

You could do it covertly.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

All these ballots must cost a great deal of money. Who is paying for them?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 March 2006

I do not want to disappoint you. I am pleased to hear that you are moving towards multi-year pay agreements because that does remove one source of 16 conflict. However, we also know that all the strike ballots we have had, and there do appear to have been rather a lot of them since this time last year, have not been about the pay agreement; they have been about local issues that have escalated or bizarre claims about bullying and management action within London Underground. Have you met Bob Crow [General Secretary, RMT] since you became Commissioner and what is...