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• Reference: 2012/0037-2
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 19 July 2012

Commissioner, when were the Metropolitan Police Service first aware of problems with the private security firm Group 4 Security (G4S) and their ability to deliver their promised security complement?

• Reference: 2012/0040-2
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 July 2012

Chair, it is just a quick question, and it goes back I think to where Steve [O'Connell] started. Commissioner, what I just wanted to raise with you was, as well as the Olympics, and I welcome the assurances that you have given from where you are at the moment, it is summer time, even though it is so wet out there, and during this time there would normally be contingency plans for events that happen, certainly in some boroughs that I am familiar with, over that summer period. You would normally, I know in the boroughs I represent, they would...

• Reference: 2012/0041-2
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 19 July 2012

A question to the Commissioner. Just earlier on, and I apologise for arriving late, but I heard you, in terms of you answering the questions on the milestones. I want to take you back to the Olympic security issue. Of course in July when they indicated they could not fulfil the contract, that is quite a clear milestone. You mentioned before in the autumn of 2011 the jump from 3,000 odd to 10,000.

• Reference: 2012/0043-2
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 19 July 2012

Can we just look at learning lessons and really I suppose the aspect of privatisation, which is another side of policing activities in terms of what has happened with some of your neighbouring services. I really have two questions to you both, but if I can begin with the Commissioner. On a webcast on 21 June, I think you have a fairly fixed view about privatisation, about the limits of it, where to put it within the police activities and where not. Do you describe core activities ... you do not really see privatisation doing patrolling, issues of police investigations...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

No, I was adding it to the statistics that he has used, so that he can use that in future.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 13 September 2006

I think it is not just the efficiency that has been improved, but they have actually reduced their risk to probity now, but anyway, thank you. I will go back to TfL with some of the detail. Thank you.

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 12 July 2006

I think we have to put some positive incentives to minicab drivers, having gone through the registration scheme. I think it would help reinforce what is a successful safety scheme

• Reference: 2001/0545
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 19 September 2001

Does the Mayor agree with Andrew Lansley MP that the Conservative Party is endemically racist? Does this explain the lack of Black or Asian Assembly members in Tory seats on the Assembly? .

• Reference: 2001/0555
• Question by: Meg Hillier
• Meeting date: 19 September 2001

Your Transport Strategy states Transport for London's intention of introducing a flat rate 70p bus fare in late 2002, making the 'zoning' system irrelevant to pay-as-you-ride bus travel. What will be the fate, when travelling by bus, of passengers holding a travelcard valid only in a few zones? .