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• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 05 September 2019

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I am increasingly concerned as to whether Stratford Station can safely meet growing passenger demand. Stratford Station is dangerously overcrowded, with well over 40 million passengers using the station a year, from only 12 million a decade ago. I understand plans to address overcrowding are looking solely at Stratford regional station, yet Stratford International could help relieve the situation. What are you doing to look at expanding the use of Stratford International Station to deal with this increase in demand?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 08 February 2018

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you very much. I want to pick up some issues around resilience today. Recommendation 47 in the Lord Harris review stated that the emergency medical response pilot between the LFB and the [London] Ambulance Service (LAS), which is in a number of boroughs, should “be expanded to all London boroughs as quickly as training resources allow”. However, in the Mayor’s One Year On response to that report [ Harris Review into London’s Preparedness to Respond to a Major Terrorist Incident: Progress Report – One Year On , 2017], he says the process has been delayed...