• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Much of the affordable housing is provided by housing associations. Do you agree with the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster that the right to buy should be extended to housing association tenants?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Would you accept, of course, Drivers Jonas is showing a trend over a number of years, whereas your figures only give us a snapshot of one year?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Who carried out the research for your monitoring figures?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

You talked at the time, about making some money back from efficiency improvements in London Underground, but you did not tell us in detail what you were planning to do. Is the proposal to cut 76 jobs for signallers and controllers, and lengthen their shifts to 12 hours ' which Bobby Law (RMT regional officer and London organiser), also from the RMT is objecting to today ' a part of your efficiency package which is going to pay for the things you have already conceded?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Are you still committed to going ahead with later running tubes?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Are you saying it is not a part of the package, or you do not know it is a part of the package?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

I am not asking you to get involved with negotiations. I am asking you to explain what is being conceded by Londoners, which I think we would all agree is a part of your responsibility. Now, this proposal to save 76 jobs amongst signallers and controllers is actually the subject of a separate ballot which is going to be telling us whether signallers are going to be working on New Year's Eve or not. Is there any coordination between what is going on here, or is it just a case of different parts of the network bidding up to get...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

How are you going to pay for it, then, because there were some gasps of incredulity around the table just now when you were saying that?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Well, that is an interesting insight into London union politics from someone who knows a little bit about it. What Londoners would appreciate from you, though, is not necessarily getting involved, but an assurance that everything is under control. When we last discussed this in October, you stated in response to a question from me about New Year's Eve industrial action: `I have seen this mentioned in the papers, but I do not think the papers have accurately reported the situation. I do not anticipate industrial action on New Year's Eve.' Can you still assure Londoners that their Tube system...

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Going back to the original question, when can we expect some later running on Friday and Saturday nights of the Tube, and are the main obstacles to progress at the moment employee issues or technical issues?