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• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

What you actually said to Jenny (Jones) was that the flood defences will have to be improved because of environmental factors: global warming, sinking land, and the fact that the risk will have increased by 2030. Of course, we do not just flick a switch and the risk doubles in 2030; the risk is increasing all the time incrementally towards that. But you did not say anything, with respect, about the risk management element, which has to take into account the value of what you are protecting as well as the risk of something happening. I am not convinced that...

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Nor, I assume, do you put your police stations and fire stations and hospitals and emergency services that will need to respond to a flood within the flood zone?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

Is there a plan which is going to ensure all these things are placed back from the area that is potentially in danger? How do you actually, when you are doing that, speak to local residents and businesses who are in the high risk area and assure them that, just because you have not got public facilities there, that does not meant it is a no-go area?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Obviously it appears that the one-stop shop approach is working. On 11 September last year the Government announced the launch of a 24-hour helpline with support from Comic Relief, for people to report domestic violence. Have the police or the Police Authority been involved with that initiative?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Roger Evans (AM): Do you think it is a good thing in principle?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

I think Londoners will be pleased to hear the reassurance from the Commissioner that speed cameras are there for public safety rather than to raise revenue. One of the more positive initiatives has been to paint speed cameras yellow so that they act as an aid to safety rather than as a money raiser. Will you undertake to do what you can to ensure that the Mayor's new mobile speed cameras are also painted yellow and highlighted so that they contribute to safety improvements in London and are not just seen as a way of raising money? ... mobile speed...