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• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 07 December 2016

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I would like to question you about a specific part of the Mayor’s manifesto that stated that the Mayor would “make sure Londoners get a fair deal from developers”. Profits of large building firms have exploded by more than 500% in the last six years and many local authorities simply have not been able to negotiate enough affordable housing with developers over recent years. One of the issues is the expertise and this whole industry around viability assessments when experts work for the boroughs one day and then for developers the next. Can you explain how...

• Reference: 2011/0257-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 07 December 2011

What will policing in London look like in 2 years time?

• Reference: 2010/0170-1
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

How do you envisage the future of Borough policing and Safer Neighbourhood Teams?

• Reference: 2010/0206-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

Dee Doocey (Chair): We now come to the session on policing. Can I formally welcome Kit Malthouse, in his capacity as Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, and Sir Paul Stephenson, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. I know that both Kit and Sir Paul wish to make an opening statement. Just to explain how things are going to work, the questions we have got in today are quite unusual in that they are all quite similar, so it has been agreed that each question will be put in turn and the questioner will have the opportunity to ask two...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

I would like to pick up a couple of the issues from earlier. I am, Sir Paul, really reassured in your commitment to Safer Neighbourhood Teams and, particularly, that you are nervous about moving away from the ward-based model; I certainly am as well. It is very reassuring compared to what I have heard the Assistant Commissioner in Territorial Policing say. I found that he clearly has ideas to change TP completely. You said to Richard [Tracey] that that might be Surrey, this is London. It seems to me Ian McPherson's ideas come from Norfolk, and that is not London...