• 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?

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

Can I ask you again about the Chancery Lane accident, because you seem to be avoiding answering the question; there may be good reasons for this. Are you committed to ensuring that TfL's management gets to the bottom of this problem because LUL's management has failed to do so to date?

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

The question is will you give priority to further investigations that are necessary to understand precisely what happened, because until that time Londoners cannot be confident that there is not some lurking problem with the trains which may come back again.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

If there is not a no-strike agreement, are you prepared to back legislation to actually outlaw strikes on the Underground? Did that not happen in New York and where Tim O'Toole comes from?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

What if he gets into trouble while he is doing it? Will it not be really tempting for you to go and be human resources director of London Underground for a day and sort it out?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 18 June 2003

Exactly, so can I then put an even more important issue and ask you what pressure you are putting on the Government and Department of Transport to speed up the decision to go ahead with Crossrail 1?