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  • Appointment of Tfl Directors (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    I think where the argument in this question heads towards is a position that says that your board are a bunch of parrots, if you like, or `yes- people who take their allowances and play no active role. Can you tell us more about the grit that exists within the machine of TfL that means the board adds value to the way in which the organisation works?

  • Appointment of Tfl Directors (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    Do I understand that when the Mayor told us that he had agreed with you that he would not appoint anybody to the board that you disapproved of, he was wrong?

  • Appointment of Tfl Directors (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    Looking ahead, what changes could you envisage on the board as and when TfL takes on the responsibility for rail services, particularly over a geographic area beyond London?

  • Appointment of Tfl Directors (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    The Mayor told us that he had given you that assurance. Are you telling us that he has not given you such an assurance?

  • Appointment of Tfl Directors (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    Would you agree that for a chief executive to have a veto over, in effect, the non-executive directors of any organisation would be wholly unacceptable in terms of proper corporate governance?

  • Appointment of Tfl Directors (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Bob Neill
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    Therefore, the Mayor was wholly misleading us?

  • Appointment of Tfl Directors (Supplementary) [8]

    • Question by: Roger Evans
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    That was very interesting, but perhaps we can get back to the matter in hand, which is the board. How many times has the TfL board voted against one of your proposals?

  • Appointment of Tfl Directors (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Andrew Pelling
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    I chair the Assembly's Budget Committee and I was quite taken aback by a comment made by the Mayor at the December Budget Committee that an undertaking was given to you when you were appointed that you would have the right of veto over the appointment of board members. My first question is to ask whether or not that statement was accurate. Furthermore, it also strikes me a bit odd to put you in a position as chief executive, where you could turn around to a board member and say, `Well I am pretty tired of this criticism you are...

  • Appointment of Tfl Directors (Supplementary) [10]

    • Question by: Roger Evans
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    Would it not be true to say that regardless of no one keeping track, the board has never voted against a proposal of yours or the Mayor's to the extent that you have lost?

  • Appointment of Tfl Directors (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Andrew Pelling
    • Meeting date: 06 April 2005
    Does that mean the veto does not exist?