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• Reference: 2003/0427
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Given the overwhelming public demand for more community based police patrolling on foot, will the step-change programme prove sufficient to meet public expectations? .

• Reference: 2003/0180
• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

What potential does Mr O'Toole see for improved integration of single-journey ticketing between London Underground and the overland suburban rail network? Does he see this as a priority? What will he be doing to move this forward? .

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

I wanted to ask Tim O'Toole: I know you are not yet hands on at London Underground. When you are, you will experience the difficulty in working with overland rail, where there are interchanges which have combined stations. Do you have any thoughts yet about whether you will be revisiting the escalator policy at those interchanges, where lifts are proposed for new stations but often escalators are not? They are expensive, but they are also a very valuable part of access to local people " not just people with mobility problems, but to have them in addition to lifts is...

• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

And where they do not exist?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Can I ask about some of the deep stations and safety on them? How are you going to ensure passenger safety on the deep stations when Metropolitan Police officers are out of radio contact when they go down there? You do not have to go very deep to be out of contact, such as at St James's which is only two flights of stairs. Also, London Fire Brigade is not contactable below ground in these stations and negotiations have gotten nowhere over the last two and a half years.