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• Reference: 2007/2810
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

How well prepared is London this year for a potential flu pandemic? And are we coordinated with other Government agencies and other regions?

• Reference: 2007/2815
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Did you at any stage in the past few months discuss with Government alternative models for the future of Metronet? What, if any, financial guarantees have you received from Government for the support of the works previously promised by the Metronet consortium?

• Reference: 2007/0039-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

There is a long-standing commitment to deliver an overarching sustainability plan for the whole Olympic family. How is work progressing and can you tell us what the main points will be?

• Reference: 2007/0356
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 February 2007

Do you see value in copying the major projects agreement developed and used at Heathrow Terminal 5 for the Olympics in order to maintain good and harmonious partnership and good working practices and as a part of the strategy through this to manage costs?

• Reference: 2006/1585
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

What discussions has the Mayor had with government on an increase in the funding in the next spending review to ensure that additional socially rented homes are available for Londoners?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Sally Hamwee (Chair): I explained when I wrote to you ' I think it was before Christmas ' that we would ask about the financial details because it is a very particular, very unusual position that you are in, very much one of public interest. John Biggs (AM): The question was to ask you for a list of the contractual benefits to which you are entitled up to 31 January. Could you tell us how many crates of claret, how many rooms at the Savoy, how many transatlantic flights, how many gold-plated telephones you get as part of your contract?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

I was a little uneasy about this question, but I was allocated a lead role on it. Perhaps some of my less pleasant colleagues would like to follow it through. It seems to me that we have a perfect right under the Access to Information legislation to ask formal questions of TfL and the Mayor to which we get formal answers. I suppose underlying this is a concern that down the years that TfL has not been the most transparent organisation in the world. I guess that the contract of its Chief Executive could be seen as the apex of...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

I do not want to rake over answers you have given already, but at the last Mayor's Question Time, the Mayor described that it was asserted ' I think it was an Evening Standard story ' that there had been a bust-up between you and him about the fate or future or proposals of Jay Walder (Managing Director, Finance and Planning, TfL). He described that as being rubbish and piffle. Would you use similar words to describe that or was the Mayor being less than open with us on that matter?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Is there a fundamental disagreement between yourself and Mr Walder on an aspect of strategy which was instrumental in your decision to hang up your boots?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

I have one other question about your management style. Perhaps you can put the record straight on this, because the press can be very wounding. There have been allegations on the one hand that you are a dreadful control freak and that nothing has happened in TfL without you blocking it or running it over your desk; on the other hand, there have been various scurrilous allegations that in fact you have been almost negligent in your role and are barely in the office, that you have a cardboard cut-out there, for example, and nothing really happens. Can you clarify...