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• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Can you let me know how many other individual consultants in your time have been paid more than £3,000 a day and on what sort of basis while you have been Commissioner?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

The Greens have been working on pushing walking and cycling up the agenda. What would you say to Peter Hendy about the biggest change that you could make to walking and cycling? Are there any specific measures he could take to radically change the London streetscape from that point of view?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

One of my concerns is that as the bus fares and Tube fares rise, we are actually going to almost force people back into their cars. That is one of the reasons I so much agreed with you about getting under-16s free on the buses; I thought that was totally inappropriate because it makes buses more crowded for other people who might want to use them. Do you think we are going to see a situation where bus fares and Tube fares mean that it actually is worth paying the Congestion Charge and using private cars again?

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

I really want to pick up on what Roger Evans has just said. You mentioned the inevitability of disagreements between professionals; absolutely, that is par for the course. What I wanted to know was, apart from when your contract was renewed a year ago, were lawyers involved in the achievement of this recent settlement?

• Reference: 2006/0005-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Please comment on your achievements as Commissioner for Transport, and what further improvements to London's transport you hope to see in the period to June 2008.

• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

On your own admission just now, you have made clear that the transport system is not ideal. We have a situation here where people are being asked to pay not only a 60% increase, but with the western extension, TfL's own economic impact assessment makes clear that there will be a reduction in lunch-time customers for restaurants, shift-workers such as cleaners will suffer, `retailers may close down', `retailers may relocate', and delivery costs will be passed to customers. Are you not at all concerned about the disastrous impact of the Congestion Charge and the western extension over the next few...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Therefore, you are not holding out any hope that I am going to see a sustainable transport unit this year.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I am not entirely happy about it being a policy unit because I think it is very important that it reaches right through the organisation but also that it is quite practically based. I am concerned about the status it has because, for me, this should have a very, very high-status, just because it has the possibility of transforming the way TfL does everything

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Do you regret the decision to spend millions of pounds cleaning up the pollution from Routemaster buses now that you decided to scrap them just a couple of years later?

• Reference: 2005/0139-1
• Question by: Damian Hockney
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Do you think there is any scope to improve the accountability of TfL to Londoners and, if so, how would you suggest this can be achieved?