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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: 06 September 2018

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: Thank you. We have heard a lot about the London Stadium but there are five different Olympic sporting venues in the Olympic Park. Two of these are the [Lee Valley] Hockey and Tennis Centre and the [Lee Valley] VeloPark, but they are owned and run by the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, which Londoners all contribute to. What kind of relationship do you have with that Authority as the new Chief Executive and are you considering, or are you looking at developing, a joint strategy with that Authority to explore how together you can better deliver...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

: With the recent ricin incident in Wood Green, my understanding is that - I'm not sure about the local authority - but the police commander and the Chair of primary health trust, both had a delay of something like 24 hours after the incident before they were even informed of what was happening. My question is at what point in that was the Fire Service aware?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

Well, was that 24 hours after it was first announced?

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 29 January 2003

I understand, okay. Because I understood there was a confusion with an intervention from Downing Street. I just want to be assured that there was no confusion over this, because the people in Haringey were obviously anxious when they heard about it. But that was after this confusion had been solved.