• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

I am hoping that I am going to be wrong and that you will be able to deliver these on time, but the evidence is not there.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

For example, you were fiercely critical of Metronet's shareholders: WS Atkins, Bombardier and Balfour Beatty. Are you going to let any contracts to these companies?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Which projects are going to be cancelled?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Are you therefore going to guarantee that the new trains for the sub-surface lines are going to be installed from next year?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

When we asked Tim O'Toole last week he was not prepared to give any estimates of time because we are in freefall at the moment.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

The plan is that they will start to see improvements as early as next year.

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

For people who get frustrated waiting because there is a problem on the District Line; that is going to be a much longer wait than we thought now then?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

The number of lost customer hours to the Underground has got worse not better in the last year, so where are all these improvements?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

There are not only those costs there are the cost overruns incurred before and also the lost time. You have estimated 18 months' to 2 years' delay which is going to increase the costs while contracts are reconfigured. Tim O'Toole [Managing Director, London Underground Limited] told us last week that some key personnel have left so it has become quite difficult to understand the status of work against contracts and sub-contracts. This is all becoming a nightmare, isn't it?

• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

They are already 18 months late anyway, so you are adding another 18 months.