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  • Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    You have mentioned, Andrew, that this is your review. I want to be absolutely clear what the status of the District Auditor is in it now. Have you asked the District Auditor to do any further work or investigations?

  • Review process of LDA funding (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2008
    I think it is very telling that you did not approach the people making the allegations for clear evidence so that you could actually do this review properly. Therefore I am not convinced, and I do not think Londoners will be convinced, that you have done a proper review.

  • Fare Evasion (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 05 December 2007
    Without getting into the merits or otherwise of bendy buses, obviously one of the clear concerns is that the rear portion of the buses is not monitored. Is there a consideration now then that you would concentrate RPIs and suchlike on such routes, where fare evasion is particularly a problem?

  • Fare Evasion (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 05 December 2007
    The reason I raised that is that the number 18 bus route that runs through my constituency carries two million passengers a year, or thereabouts. In a recent exercise over 100 people were caught in an hour, without having paid a proper fare. That suggests that anecdotal evidence that people just do not bother paying if they get on the rear portion of those buses is borne out by reality, and if there is a concentration on routes such as that, it must reduce the amount of money that is evaded. Would you not agree that is a useful way...

  • Abandoned Cooler tube proposals (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 05 December 2007
    Have you got any idea when we will actually hear when this will all happen?

  • Abandoned Cooler tube proposals (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 05 December 2007
    In the spring. Is that the spring of next year or 2009 or later?

  • Abandoned Cooler tube proposals (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 05 December 2007
    One of the considerations that I would like you to take away, and I do not expect an answer now, is about the timings on the Metropolitan Line trains on the signboards that seem to have disappeared because no one can rely on them. The fact that trains are due to appear is listed now, but without the actual time delay and it appears because of frequent breakdowns and problems that we have got on the rolling stock, that that is what is happening and a lot of commuters are concerned about that.

  • Abandoned Cooler tube proposals (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 05 December 2007
    I listened to your comments about the requirement to do the Metropolitan Line, which runs right the way through my constituency. Obviously one of the concerns that most people have is that, in some way, shape or form, the various different station upgrades and improvements to the line are going to be delayed or even worse, postponed. Can you give us a guarantee now about when the work will be carried out, or whether that will be included within this Metronet review?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    At the moment you are clearly on target. What extra sponsorship do you anticipate signing up in the next, say, 12 months?

  • Budget and Venues Update (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Bob Blackman
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    Can I just ask Mary about the LDA's perspective. The Memorandum of Understanding has been renegotiated. We have heard the assurances today about budgets but we clearly do not know what the position will be when we get the final outturn on everything. Have you got any concerns that the Government might withdraw revenue for support grant, for example, from the GLA to compensate for any cost overruns?