• 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?

• 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?