• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Right, okay, I'm aware of that. How much are you talking to the LDA about future funding, because 2004 is around the corner. SRB runs out. The LDA have made some sort of vague planning and support for it. Are you looking the LDA in the eye and helping to discuss this issue with them?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

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• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

You talked about the 24-hour service, so will we be seeing more early starters because you have only to be out and about in London at 5.00am to see this army of women, many of them from minority communities, walking the streets of London, trying to work, to get the public services up and going for the rest of the population. So there is a case to actually look at the service available to these workers who are predominantly from some of our most disadvantaged communities. You just have to go out and see. I challenge you to go walking...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Can you give us an assurance that you'll be doing ongoing monitoring about the uptake, especially of women using black cabs because of late night working, given the rise in the fares? Again, this might be a deterrent to them, so will there be monitoring of the use of the service?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Thank you for that and that, without doubt, is a really good programme of activity that you've embarked on in your delivering for women. But you know what I'm going to say - but I would say to you the point that I'm picking up, going across London and meeting with women, is that that is not enough and what they're particularly concerned about is the serious delay that has occurred around the minicab licensing process. Now, that isn't a question that is on the paper, but I think you could start to talk about that given that the figures...

• Question by: Samantha Heath
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

My question, which John and Jennette both touched on, is the design of interchanges. Now, the question is in two parts, one is on the permanent works as it finally emerges. And secondly, the temporary work and how we live with the change as it is being worked upon. The first one would be, a couple of designs that have come to my attention, which Richard Rogers has been working on, which really present buses completely separately from the rest of the road. The perception of crime is a big issue. Waiting at a bus stop where only one bus...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

I think it is a rogue driver. It is a tout, yes. If we had that prominence on the side of a cab, it would give confidence to youngsters that they are getting into the right kind of cab. Now, you have made mention in your answers to colleagues around the table, that it is an issue of legalities and issues of plying for trade. I feel uncomfortable with that answer, and I appreciate there is the issue that people might abuse that notice to ply for trade, but this is an issue of people using minicabs that they have...

• Question by: Andrew Pelling
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

I think it is appropriate this is fitted in to follow the questions that my colleagues John and Jennette asked about safety. I am particularly concerned about the issue of the safety of youngsters who come out of the Croydon night time economy looking to get into any minicab that is available. And this is why I have asked you on two previous occasions, as to whether it would be possible to urgently expedite the issue of allowing minicabs to be able to show prominently on the side of their cabs that they are bona fide. You are obviously very...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

Well, I think that is all very commendable and I wish you well with all of that, but will you commit to the secure station scheme which is about lighting and design and some of the other issues outside what the Transport Police themselves can do? There are questions about the Transport Police in terms of the Met as well.

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 22 May 2002

As you know, Mayor, the Assembly has been doing quite a bit of work on safer routes for women; well for everyone, but particularly the barriers for women. Of course, one of the things that come up quite often is the secure station scheme. Given that only 4% of the country's stations are now accredited with that scheme and apparently only 11 Tube stations, I was wondering when and as you get control of the Tube, if ever, whether you would give a commitment to have 100% of stations completed in that scheme within 10 years, if you are still...