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• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Gareth Bacon AM: Commissioner, the Mayor has said that the review he has asked you to conduct will ensure that TfL provides “a modern and affordable transport” system. I wrote that down while he was speaking and so hopefully I have quoted him correctly. Is it your view that TfL has been running an expensive and antiquated system for the last eight years?

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Gareth Bacon AM: Mr Brown, we all know about the big revenue cuts that have been made to TfL’s budget by the Government and that the commercial income work that is being done by Graeme Craig and his team is absolutely crucial to TfL’s future. I think we are all agreed on that. I personally am one of the big cheerleaders for what he is doing. The business plan states that there is going to be £3.4 billion of commercial income generated over the lifetime of the business plan. When that assumption was made, the 50% affordable housing target and...

• Question by: Lord Bailey of Paddington
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Shaun Bailey AM: Good morning, Mr Brown. The new Mayor has promised to abandon - and I quote - “Boris Johnson’s policy of refusing to talk to TfL transport workers and union representatives”. Why, in your opinion, did both Boris Johnson MP and Ken Livingstone [former Mayor of London] not speak to these unions? Do you feel that the Mayor interfering - I use the word “interfering” but you might feel differently - and taking on the negotiations might undermine the brilliant work done by TfL’s own negotiations team?

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 08 June 2016

Gareth Bacon AM: This is a question to the Mayor, Mr Chairman. Mr Mayor, are you prepared to guarantee that Local Implementation Plan (LIP) funding will remain at the current levels to the boroughs?