• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

One of our recommendations in the report was about accessibility. Do you know whether that is something the LUL is working on at the moment? There was going to be a core system that would be accessible to all.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

No he did not. You have not quite answered the question.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

And it was partly an opportunity for you to provide a clear statement to Londoners about the priority you will give to safety when you take on the Tube in about three weeks. Can we build on that because one of the conclusions of the report, which I do not think has been contradicted, indeed it has been accepted by London Underground management, is that they do not yet understand the precise cause of the accident. They know what happened, but they do not know why it happened. Can you give a commitment to Londoners that you will carry out...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Given your often stated concerns about the additional safety implications with PPP, do you see that in any way impacting on the way in which you have answered this question?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

But you will recall that one of the concerns of RMT following the accident was that LUL management claimed that it was the responsibility of Tube train drivers to stop the train if they felt there was a problem with it. Yet there was a very great concern amongst the unions that staff would be punished, penalised, set under performance management regimes, and that it was not a culture in which they were able to do that. Are you saying that the culture of management of the Underground will change so significantly that people will feel free to do that...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

This was intended as a generally constructive question in a rather bad-natured morning.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

There has been quite a lot of publicity on the fact that you gave an undertaking to the unions that you would resolve their outstanding pay concerns once you took control. Do you see yourself at the same time negotiating with the unions over the outstanding concerns about the PPP?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Do you see yourself having an active relationship with the arbiter?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

We have had some recent exchanges about the Tube under the PPP. Despite my very helpful suggestions about the negotiating, you have continued to give the impression that you are completely impotent with regard to the PPP. Are you actually saying to London: that is it, I am stuffed by the PPP, there is really nothing I can do within this contract?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Have you met the PPP arbiter yet?