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  • Meeting London’s Current and Future Policing Needs

    • Reference: 2014/4962
    • Question by: Joanne McCartney
    • Meeting date: 09 December 2014
    With ever reducing budgets can the Metropolitan Police Service meet current and future policing needs?
  • Meeting London’s Current and Future Policing Needs (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Joanne McCartney
    • Meeting date: 09 December 2014
    Thank you. My question now then is to the Mayor, if I may. When the cuts to policing were first announced three-odd years ago, there were reports and in this Chamber many people warned that anything above a 12% cut to policing would affect the frontline. You said then that the MPS could make 20% at that point without affecting the frontline. I think we have seen the frontline being affected by those 20% cuts. Mr Mayor, can I just put it to you that we have heard about the risks to the future. Is it fair to say, do...
  • Meeting London’s Current and Future Policing Needs (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Tom Copley
    • Meeting date: 09 December 2014
    I want to raise with you the issue of tenants who were threatened with eviction from MOPAC-owned homes, some of whom were in fact evicted. I was pleased to see that the vast majority of those now will not be. Your Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime [Stephen Greenhalgh], who I see has just joined us, having reversed his own decision to evict people. I raised this with you back in March, the whole issue of tenants being evicted from Raynesfield in Wimbledon. Why did you not step in then when you had the chance, rather than sitting back while...
  • Meeting London’s Current and Future Policing Needs (Supplementary) [7]

    • Question by: Andrew Dismore
    • Meeting date: 09 December 2014
    A question for the Mayor, really. I want to pick up from where Sir Bernard left off on the issue of abstractions. Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): Yes. Andrew Dismore AM: In February 2013, Sir Bernard told the Police and Crime Committee that he had set a target of no more than 5% of officers’ working time on abstractions, but in July of this year, total abstractions across London in terms of total of hours worked was 17%, more than three times the target. What that translates to is quite serious. In Barnet, for example, in the six months to...
  • Transport Investment

    • Reference: 2013/0014-1
    • Question by: Valerie Shawcross
    • Meeting date: 24 July 2013
    What are your top priorities for transport investment in London?
  • Social Infrastructure

    • Reference: 2004/0197-1
    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Do you accept the view that the biggest difficulty facing the Thames Gateway is the social infrastructure (schools, hospitals, housing etc)? How do you plan to address this? .
  • Funding

    • Reference: 2004/0198-1
    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    How will the creation of a UDC affect LDA funding streams and priorities in East London? .
  • Transport

    • Reference: 2004/0201-1
    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    Do you envisage using LDA resources to develop the Thames Gateway Bridge? .
  • Olympics

    • Reference: 2004/0202-1
    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    How will you ensure that the Olympic bid area will be regenerated if we do not win the bid? What priority is being given to ensure that local businesses and residents, particularly those from excluded groups, benefit from business and employment opportunities from the Games? .
  • Policing in Thames Gateway

    • Reference: 2004/0203-1
    • Question by: Diana Johnson
    • Meeting date: 17 March 2004
    What steps are the LDA and Thames Gateway UDC taking to liaise with the MPS, MPA and BTP regarding policing needs in the new Thames Gateway area? .