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• Reference: 2006/0001-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Please explain the reasons for your leaving TfL at an earlier date than anticipated by your engagement. Sally Hamwee (Chair): Thank you very much for all of that. We will follow the order, which is on the order paper. The first question is to ask about your reasons for leaving. I think Geoff Pope for the Liberal Democrats is going to kick off. Geoff Pope (AM): Good morning, Mr Kiley. May I start by, on behalf of the Liberal Democrats on the London Assembly, congratulating you on your leadership over the last five years to set a clear direction for...

• Reference: 2006/0002-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

What are the financial and other terms of the termination of your engagement to which TfL have agreed? The Mayor has informed the Assembly that you will be paid salary and bonuses up to 31 January 2006 and a final (additional) payment of £745,000. As the contractual benefits to which you have been entitled will presumably apply to that date, please list them (excluding the house you occupy, dealt with at Question 4).

• Reference: 2006/0003-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

The Mayor has announced that you are to be engaged as consultant to him, as Chair of TfL, and to his advisers, and will be available to the new Commissioner and senior TfL staff for 90 days in each of 2006 and 2007 and 50 days in the period 1 January to 30 June 2008; and that your consultancy remuneration has been agreed at an average daily rate of £3,200. Please confirm the principal provisions of the consultancy and explain whether the remuneration is £3,200 per day actually worked, together with the other financial terms and benefits (excluding those dealt...

• Reference: 2006/0004-1
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 18 January 2006

Have you had or are you aware of a recent valuation of the capital value and/or the rental value of the house which you occupy? Please confirm what work has been undertaken to the house since your appointment, and what benefits connected with the house you have been entitled to and have received, and what benefits you will be entitled to through your consultancy.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

If I can go back to Silverlink for a moment, the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA), as was, rejected the proposal of a commuter rail authority. Your priorities, or the benefits you saw were things like greater efficiency, more frequent services, integrating fares using Oyster and better station facilities. If you do get Silverlink Metro, how many of those benefits would we see soon? The Islington stations, for instance, on the North London Line desperately need modernising and to be made safer for passengers. The same can be said at Queens Park Station on the Watford line. You say you are...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

Then it seems we can be optimistic. What about the upgrade of the stations in Queens Park on the Watford line and the Islington stations on the North London Line because they are critical in those negotiations? Can you give any assurance on that?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I think it was March 2004 when you launched TfL's bid for a London Regional Rail Authority, which the Liberal Democrats support. If I were to ask you for a progress report on the extent of the negotiations so far with Silverlink - How far has the agenda reached and what discussions are taking place?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

£1.6 million in external legal costs is the cost that has come from the Freedom of Information Act request that the Liberal Democrats put to you. These are the legal costs for fighting the PPP originally. I was shoulder to shoulder with the Mayor and you and we were all against the PPP as being unworkable, but this reference by Roger Evans is the first peep, quite frankly, out of the Mayor towards his now chums in the Labour Party that there is anything amiss. Do you really think it is worth waiting until the end of the year? It...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I think it is so serious when bailiffs arrive that actually if you get letters from people saying, `But I never got the notices' and have business accounts departments that would normally handle them, you really have to do something about the system right now and say that any of these cases are to be an exception and should go to some sort of forum where they are looked at. To have bailiffs arrive is really unacceptable when the fault may be TfL's.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 06 April 2005

I just want to support Elizabeth (Howlett) because I had not realised there were other cases of bailiffs arriving. I have just written to TfL about several where no previous notice has been received. TfL writes to these people and says that penalty notices, etc., were issued, but they were not. You have to take this really seriously because some people are not able to go to court; they are vulnerable and scared and may not have the money. This is terrifying people. They are individual cases, not hundreds of them, but I do want your double assurance that you...