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

The question is, can we have confidence that Transport for London can in less than 6 months make a very simple change to a matter of enormous public safety concern for Londoners?

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

I must say I am delighted with that answer, Chair, but I will have to send it away for text analysis.

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

I am very interested to hear, Chair, Bob's promotion of Biggin Hill International Airport, and the needed transport infrastructure, but to go back to the question in front of us which I think is a very important one, I don't know of the exact wording but your manifesto said something to the effect that consultation under Ken Livingstone's mayoralty would be the most transparent and open the world has yet seen and our experience from TfL is somewhat remote from that. I think it is an issue that the Assembly should look at in greater detail and perhaps we should...

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

I think we recognise and respect that principle and I don't want to take up time at the meeting exploring it further, but one tiny supplementary which is about transparency and access to information, because very often people, when they haven't got what they want, are aggrieved that they think things have happened behind closed doors and TfL have got a very much closed door reputation at the moment. Can you state in very simple terms, how you are going to open those doors up?

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

I don't get a sense this is a big priority though.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Are you saying now that this is a hell or high water initiative but you're not sure that you have the power to go ahead with it?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

I had certainly been briefed to the effect that you may have a problem in this area and I'm surprised that you haven't.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

We've had a lengthy debate earlier about the Underground and the potential effect that will have on TfL's budget, and I happen to accept your view that it would be fairly crazy for us to squirrel away money to simply save the Government having to make hard decisions about how it endows the Underground when it transfers to us. Having said that, the massive deficit in your budget in its structuring is that it says nothing about how you are going to manage the Underground, about what proposals you have. You're putting massive additional subsidies into buses. You're saying nothing...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

When we look again at the question of borrowings and private funded schemes within public transport, which even the most left wing administrations in this country pursue these days, can you explain to us why you have vetoed what's called the LUPP, the London Underground Property Partnership scheme, which would generate hundreds of millions to help fund deficits in the Underground?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Can you explain to Londoners how it is that an authority - Transport for London - which is seeing an increase in its government grant from £700 million to roughly £1 billion this year, can be described in any shape or form as being under-funded?