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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

With your indulgence, Chair, I wanted to cover two things briefly. The first I think is to Stephen Greenhalgh, which is that he is the lineal successor to [Lord] Toby Harris AM, Len Duvall AM [former Chairs of the MPA and then Kit Malthouse AM [former Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime]. They exercised their roles predominantly as chairs of the MPA with many members. I just wanted to, if you like, punch the bruise of Tony Arbour's question, which is that understanding and defining your role -- and you are not stupid by any stretch of the imagination. However...

• Reference: 2012/0067-2
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

It is very simply stated that we have a commitment from the Mayor's Chief of Staff about the quality and quantity of financial information we will be receiving and it should not diminish. My exhibits are (a) Police and Crime Committee monthly report, one paragraph of financial information, which says I think diddly-squat is the accounting term, and (b) is MPA Finance Committee, Resources Committee, same time last year, 24-page report with tables with accurate information on the departures from the budget. That seems to me to be a bit of a departure from Sir Edward [Lister]'s undertaking. If I...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 29 November 2012

I had a process question, which is one of the reasons I am on this earth, or indeed on this Committee. It is about the Police and Crime Plan. I was really taken aback by something you said, Mr Greenhalgh, which is about how are you going to reach hard-to-reach groups. This is a statutory document, a statutory plan, it cements the relationship between you and him [The Commissioner] in a very public fashion. I had assumed you would have a plan, a project plan if you like, as to how you are going to roll this out. You have...

• Reference: 2012/0027-2
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 21 June 2012

John Biggs (AM): One specific question, then a more general one. The specific one is, where are we now with the discussions on the funding of the Kirkin and Withern pieces of work (dedicated operations for responding to public disorder)?

• Reference: 2003/0176
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Are you ready to take over London Underground ? .

• Reference: 2003/0182
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Is the Underground under or overstaffed? .

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

I would like to ask the 1 million euro question: are you able to tell us today that the Tube will be materially and recognisably different and better in July 2004 than in July 2003?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Come 15 July, when the transfer will take place, will you be able to announce to Londoners I do not want you to pre empt that by announcing it today, but it would be nice if you would the tangible ways in which the Tube will be better in the coming year? An electoral timetable is obviously a good benchmark for this. They will be non cosmetic changes, not just changed uniforms; they will be material changes in the quality of services, the frequency of trains, and the levels of crowding and you will set targets for that? Is that...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

Lying behind this question is the under?known fact if there is such a word as `under known" that TfL inherits something like 13,000 staff from the Underground. Only a minority will transfer under the PPP, so there is an awful lot of discretion there. Whatever the Underground"s other failings, surveys repeatedly indicated that the public strongly welcome the number of staff at stations, and indeed would like more. Are you able to give a commitment to Londoners from today's meeting that before there was any cutting of staff from stations you would very publicly and very openly discuss the reasons...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 June 2003

I will take that as a `no" then. I would like to give you another chance to answer the question more positively, which is to look at outer London stations. I appreciate this point has been touched on earlier, but one of the great public concerns about the national rail network in London is quite how many stations are not staffed at night or, in some cases, are not staffed ever. That leads to enormous insecurity and as a result people just do not use those lines. Can you give a guarantee to Londoners that at all times under your...