This has brought home to us all how important it is that we do everything we can do to ensure that such an awful tragedy does not happen again. Safety is too important an issue to be dealt with in detail at today's Summit. That is why I have decided that there should be a separate safety meeting later this year. That meeting will be attended by myself, Sir David Davies, the Health and Safety Commission and officials from my Department. It now faces an historic opportunity to meet the challenge of a further huge increase in passenger demand.
Railways are also at the heart of our integrated transport policy.
We have put into place the framework for providing strategic direction and proper regulation. It is now up to the industry to prove it can deliver what passengers want.