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• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 21 October 2009

In retrospect, do you regret perhaps not negotiating more robustly - I am choosing my words with care - with the IOC over some of its more elitist demands? For example, we spent vast amounts of money upgrading the transport system but it is insisting that nearly half the people have got the right to use the roads.

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I am not arguing with the principle. I am just trying to understand how many of the 70,000 volunteer places will actually be available if the sponsors take up their allocation and do not decide to give them to the community. How many are going to be available for the community? Is it 60,000, is it 50,000 or is it 65,000?

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2007

I will come on now to sponsorship. There have been reports in the press that sponsors are going to get an allocation of tickets, which is perfectly understandable. I suppose you share my view and hope that it will not be like Wembley, where so many of the tickets are sold to people who have no interest in football and have their back turned to the game. My main concern is it is also reported in the press that staff of sponsors are going to get the opportunity to have some of the volunteer places. First of all I want...

• Reference: 2003/0139
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

London Underground's own passenger surveys show that a key priority for Londoners on the Tube is improving train frequencies. Which trains on which lines do you expect to be more frequent by the end of June 2004, and by May 2008? .

• Reference: 2003/0140
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

What methods do you believe will be most effective in giving passengers more space within Tube carriages especially at peak hours? How do you plan to work with the infracos to prevent passengers being crammed up against each other? .

• Reference: 2003/0141
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

What do you believe will be the most effective way of reducing passenger journey delays? By how much do you expect to have reduced passenger journey delays over the next five years? .

• Reference: 2003/0142
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

What steps do you plan to take to avoid dangerous overcrowding on platforms? .

• Reference: 2003/0143
• Question by: Sally Hamwee
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Do you have plans to make it safer, especially for vulnerable passengers, to travel on the Underground late at night " not only on trains and within stations, but also within the vicinity of Tube stations? .

• Reference: 2003/0144
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

How many Tube stations will be made fully accessible for disabled people over the next five years? .

• Reference: 2003/0146
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

What discussions have you had with the Secretary of State for Transport to determine the date on which London Underground will be handed over to Transport for London? What is your own estimate of this date? .