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• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Thank you very much, Mr Mayor. I am very glad to hear that neither of you feels complacent about this issue. There were 188 knife crime injuries in the two boroughs that I represent [Lambeth and Southwark] in the last year and so clearly something is happening. There was an increase in the injuries. With the end of the old knife crime strategy, we all are looking for an initiative and a new pressure and a refreshing of the pressure on knife crime. The Commissioner talked at the Police and Crime Committee about the impact of drugs and alcohol and...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

John, in the waste strategy there is the specific proposal to establish a capital standard initiative to promote basically the very laudable aim of raising the standards of our street environment. How are things proceeding on that? We were supposed to have a high-profile initiative launched before the end of 2001. When will we actually see something?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

So we've got a launch date in January have we?

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 14 November 2001

You've referred to the problems with this initiative. Without talking your way through the entire history again, John, which I'm sure you don't want to go through, can you say what you would have done differently if you were doing this again? And exactly how is it that an initiative that was supposed to be launched about now has only just been agreed by the ALG? What went wrong and what would you have done differently?