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

What about the New Year's Eve issue? Is there going to be New Year's Eve working or is there going to be industrial action this year?

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

Back in the days before TfL were responsible for the Underground, the managers there told us they used to have, probably, on average, eight issues outstanding with the unions which could lead to industrial action at any time. What sort of figure is that now?

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

So your intervention did not actually make any difference at all.

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

What would be the implication for future decisions on industrial relations on the Tube of the way that you made a statement that it was down to Tube managers, and then went and interfered with the process at the end? Has that changed the face of industrial relations on London Underground for the future?

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

Does this also apply to buses and taxis?

• 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