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  • Finance and Co-odination (Supplementary) [6]

    • Question by: Toby Harris
    • Meeting date: 15 October 2003

  • Finance and Co-odination (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Toby Harris
    • Meeting date: 15 October 2003
    That is very encouraging. Clearly, we are keen that there is not only business engagement but community engagement. This needs to be genuinely a people's Olympics as well as everything else we have talked about. Could you say what your plans are in terms of once the technical bid has been submitted and how you intend to involve Londoners of all backgrounds in the planning of the Olympics and how they will be receiving information about it apart from via website?

  • Safer Tube Stations

    • Reference: 2003/0178
    • Question by: Toby Harris
    • Meeting date: 11 June 2003
    What priority will you give to raising tube stations to the Secure Stations standard? .

  • Safer Tube Stations (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Toby Harris
    • Meeting date: 11 June 2003
    Can I have your assurance that the focus of this, including the works on CCTV and so on, will not simply be about Zone 1, the most used stations, and the one where all the tourists go. In the area I represent, and I know there will be colleagues around the table for whom it is the same, that it is the most suburban, perhaps less busy, stations in which people feel the most insecure. Will efforts be targeted outside the central zone?

  • Safer Tube Stations (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Toby Harris
    • Meeting date: 11 June 2003
    Thank you for that. The information I have, and it may be out of date, is that only 27 Tube stations had achieved the Safer Station status. I accept your point that this may be an expensive process, so what alternatives would you put in place to establish the extent to which the users of stations feel they are safe and secure? A survey I conducted of users in my constituency earlier this year found that 40% felt their station was unsafe. They also had concerns about cleanliness and the lack of adequate information there. What steps would you see...

  • Safer Tube Stations (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: Toby Harris
    • Meeting date: 11 June 2003
    What are your objectives in terms of staffing of stations? Do you have a core figure that you feel should ensure that, however remote it is in terms of the London Underground empire, there will always be staff on duty and available to passengers should they want reassurance or information?

  • Safer Tube Stations (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Toby Harris
    • Meeting date: 11 June 2003
    Do you believe there should always be station staff on duty in all stations?