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• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Gareth Bacon AM: Commissioner, the Mayor has said that the review he has asked you to conduct will ensure that TfL provides “a modern and affordable transport” system. I wrote that down while he was speaking and so hopefully I have quoted him correctly. Is it your view that TfL has been running an expensive and antiquated system for the last eight years?

• Question by: Tony Devenish
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Tony Devenish AM: Good morning, Mr Brown. My question is for you, sir. I am delighted that you think you can juggle so many balls in terms of the efficiency savings, in terms of the operational requirements of the network and in terms of extracting - as particularly my question is to do with - the land value in your brownfield estate. You may be interested to hear that yesterday Deputy Mayor Murray [James Murray, Deputy Mayor for Housing] sat in this very room and he talked about lower land values to achieve the 50% affordable target that the Mayor...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Gareth Bacon AM: Mr Brown, we all know about the big revenue cuts that have been made to TfL’s budget by the Government and that the commercial income work that is being done by Graeme Craig and his team is absolutely crucial to TfL’s future. I think we are all agreed on that. I personally am one of the big cheerleaders for what he is doing. The business plan states that there is going to be £3.4 billion of commercial income generated over the lifetime of the business plan. When that assumption was made, the 50% affordable housing target and...

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Gareth Bacon AM: This is a question to the Mayor, Mr Chairman. Mr Mayor, are you prepared to guarantee that Local Implementation Plan (LIP) funding will remain at the current levels to the boroughs?