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• 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? .

• 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?

• 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 The information I have, and it may be out of date, is that only 27 Tube stations had achieved the Safer Station status.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...

• 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?

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Do you believe there should always be station staff on duty in all stations?

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Thank you, Simon. As I understand it, your role falls into three parts. Within the Mayor's office you act as essentially the Mayor's procurer of information and advice, making sure that it's timely and so on. Is that just within the Mayor's office, or is that more generally? Is that throughout the structure of the Authority?

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Right, so that's that aspect of your work. Is the process then that 24 hours before a meeting you would then see the sum total of the advice and decide whether the Mayor's advisor has done the job properly and there is sufficient advice for the Mayor?

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

So that's a process you engage in, deciding whether the advice is sufficient?

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

And how often is the Mayor flying without lights, in the sense of taking part in meetings without the benefit of filtered advice?

• Question by: Toby Harris
• Meeting date: 12 June 2002

Okay, can I move on to the second area of your work, which is the sort of surrogate brain for the Mayor? As I understand it, you interpret what are likely to be his views and enforce decisions or make decisions on his behalf. Does that mean that you sign decision forms, or you pass him decision forms saying this is one you've signed, or both?