• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Just a little out break of cross party unity here between Roger and myself. I totally support what he said about the Victoria Line, and I am sure, if he has got no objections, we will be making joint representation to you. It is just a lack of thinking in terms of some sort of moving system between the current stations and the new development. I want to know - not today, but later on - how we are going to work around Walthamstow Central, with that massive new development, but no proper disability access between that station, the new...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Do you not think that, if you were to buy trains which are very good for disability access and are state of the art, and then advertise them on a line where the stations do not let people get to them, you might be subject to criticism in the Evening Standard, for example.

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

I am sure, as someone who has lived in London all your life, you are aware that all of the Victoria Line stations are deep stations underground, with escalator access. Are you sure that, in providing trains that are accessible, you are actually going to be able to provide access to the stations for people to get to them?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

I am sure Londoners will welcome your proposal to make all the trains on the Victoria Line accessible to people with disabilities. What about the stations along that line?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

This improved access - how will that help our Olympic and Paralympic bid

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

I was very surprised that those comments were attributed to Richard Barnes (AM) because it seems to me that it is an evidence-based programme. I have been doing extensive surveying and researching in neighbourhoods in Lambeth and Southwark and I think it is very, very clear that the visible neighbourhood policing teams are not only reducing crime but they are also extremely popular. As more people perceive these neighbourhood teams are being put into place and communities are demanding more of this kind of policing and coverage, what sort of influence can you exert on the MPA (Metropolitan Policy Authority)...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

That may be so, but it still does not answer the question of what it is that the Mayor does not want me to tell my parliamentary colleagues and the Conservative MPs this afternoon. It seems to me that most of it is on public record anyway.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

Are you clear what the Conservative position is on neighbourhood policing?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

But you have already told the MPA that the increase for next year has to be pegged at a 2.5% increase.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 20 October 2004

We know that. We have being doing that.