• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Over two hours of checking tickets on the number 25 at Stratford, a number of people were found not to have paid their fare. What do you think that number would be?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

It would be useful to have a briefing on this at some point, but can I just ask about prosecution rates, because we put a question to the Mayor at the last Question Time about the number of people referred for prosecution, as to the number of people who actually made it there. Now, the conviction rate is quite good against the number of people who go to court. In fact it is very good, but only 20% of people recommended for prosecution actually make it into court. Why is that?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

I am referring to the 95% guarantee following the demise of Metronet, because up to that point 95% of the debts were guaranteed by the public, which was the price that was paid to get the private sector involved in the first place. If that guarantee is not in place, then it ensures that Transport for London are the only people who bid, but it does not necessarily make it any cheaper, because it also ensures that you pick up all the debt.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Why did you remove the 95% debt guarantee? Surely that would mean that no one else would want to bid for it? It would effectively leave TfL as the only bidder.

• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

That will obviously go a long way to improving safety at these stations, which have long been neglected, but other issues that would affect safety ' I know you have some ideas on this ' would be to put in Oyster card readers, again harking back to fare evasion issues, and also being able to lock the stations at night. Because some of them are not lockable or they have not been at the moment and they become a magnet for undesirable elements in the community and residents often complain about what is happening on their local stations. Do you...

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

I wondered whether the remit of the staff on the Overground will be in part to look after and maintain the bridges over which the overland trains run. I have had my attention drawn to a particular bridge where it is in a disgraceful state of disrepair and the flood damage from the summer has not even been touched yet. Is that something which now falls to the staff of the Overground or is that still a Network Rail issue?

• Question by: Brian Coleman
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

On the subject of security at stations, are you aware, Commissioner, of the security problem of criminals fitting scanning devices on chip and pin machines at our tube station? We have had two at West Finchley in the last few weeks. They seem to have moved on from banks to tube stations. Will you be taking appropriate action? Sally Hamwee (Chair): I think the question is, 'and will you make sure it does not go onto the London Overground?' Brian Coleman (Deputy Chairman): Indeed.

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Can I write to you about that then?

• Question by: Angie Bray
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

This is all waste material left over from the floods, making it very slippery, and there is a lot of urinating in the tunnel underneath and a lot of bird droppings, which are making it incredibly dangerous to walk through.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 05 December 2007

Would you accept, notwithstanding that the majority in this Assembly, possibly with the exception of Brian Coleman, do not support the construction of urban motorway networks, the fact is that east London is continually held to ransom by the lack of road capacity across the Thames there and, providing we get it right, it is a crossing that can be justified. The problems at Blackwall continue to be so severe, in terms of congestion, that any accidents in the tunnel gridlock east London. This is something that needs to be given the highest possible priority. Is there not a contradiction...