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• Reference: 2003/0152
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

What were the performance targets by which your bonus for last year was to be assessed? When were these agreed? Were they challenging? And did you achieve them? .

• Reference: 2003/0157
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

What advice have you given the TfL Board and its Chairman on the sustainability of bus contract costs? .

• Reference: 2003/0175
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Can the Mayor confirm which of the enhancements to bus services which have been proposed by TfL for early 2003 have been introduced and provide the dates at which those improvements which have not yet been made will be introduced ? .

• Reference: 2003/0183
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

What changes do you want to make to the PPP contracts? .

• Reference: 2003/0184
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Are Underground fares too high compared to bus fares and is this a problem for London? .

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

And how much have you received?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I'm delighted to report, Chair, that the gunners across the river haven't quite found their range yet! My question is about education, because clearly if we're going to avoid the construction of incinerators, we need to change people's mind in London. And there is quite a lot of good on the ground work in individual boroughs, but there is a London-wide responsibility for an education campaign. Can Mr Duffy tell me what steps he's taking to ensure that's the most effective campaign that's possible?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I don't intentionally want to fill the time, but I find those rather inadequate answers, and I put it to Mr Duffy that a problem with this was that the bids were rather inadequate and didn't show the sort of vision and leadership that London should be showing on waste minimisation and on education. A couple of sound-bites is not itself enough. It's got to be joined up with the boroughs. It's got to be an effective, driven campaign, with leadership from London. Do you think that London is offering the leadership on this that it should be?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

But clearly you are a policy advisor and clearly the legislation does allow you to hide behind confidentiality, which I do respect with some reluctance, but there is in theory a position where - I don't want incinerators in East London by the way - where the evidence base suggests that the health concerns are not as well founded as people might think and yet the political context is one in which they remain unacceptable. How would you manage that as a waste advisor?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

I want to go back to the beginning of your presentation and I wanted to understand the context in which we're listening to you, because you are the Mayor's spokesman and therefore what you say is the Mayor's view, but on the other hand you made it clear that you're a policy advisor to the Mayor which implies that there are occasions where you have advised him and he has chosen not to accept your advice. First of all, has there been any such occasion and can you imagine that occurring?