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• Reference: 2003/0467-1
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

What is being done to address the particular concerns that children and young people have in relation to crime in the capital .

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Graham Tope (AM): I did want to concentrate today on young people as victims of crime. Every London borough has amongst its top three priorities dealing with anti-social behaviour and whilst that is a priority in every borough it does tend to reinforce the stereotype, the image of young people as the perpetrators and as the problem and does not adequately recognise that more often they are the victims. In terms of talking and working with young people, one of the objectives in the MPS youth strategy is to provide an environment for young people who are victims or witnesses...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

If Step Change is as successful as we all hope it is, then obviously it will create that sort of public demand and the demand to have it spread. Whilst I might share the aspirations of the Chair that this will persuade whoever is in Government to provide additional resources, if they do not " and I have to say there is no indication that they will at this stage " how can we go ahead to meet those public expectations that we helped to create?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

There have been similar initiatives to Step Change in the past which I know the Met acknowledged to have failed. Why do you think they failed in the past? What will be different this time?

• Reference: 2002/0217-1
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Much of the draft waste strategy, rightly, concentrates on improving recycling rates on some of the worst performing boroughs in London. What incentives are there for Councils already achieving pretty high rates of recycling? .

• Reference: 2002/0213-1
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

How effective has CCTV been in reducing crime in the capital? How many convictions have resulted from CCTV cameras on London buses? .

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Would you not accept though that the majority of the money thus far has, as I say in my question, probably rightly been distributed to the low performing boroughs. What I'm really wanting to get at is what incentive there is for the high performing boroughs, those boroughs who have already made it a priority, actually to receive some reward, some recognition, from the distribution of this money.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Are you telling me then that the priority is not to give the money to low performing boroughs in order to drive them up. Surely, that is the priority.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Would you agree with me that probably the single greatest factor, and there are many factors, but the single greatest factor in what has determined up to now, what is a relatively high and a relatively low performing borough, is actually the political will to do so, and making it a political priority? And if you do agree, then what evidence and what monitoring are you doing to ensure that we get value for money from the significant sums of money now being put into traditionally low performing boroughs, who demonstrably have never made it a priority?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I don't doubt the ability of the low performing boroughs to spend money. Indeed, that's a characteristic of many of them. My question was actually about determining whether they're giving value for that money, and how we ensure that by investing in those boroughs that have never shown any interest or any priority for recycling measures, we are actually going to ensure that they spend that money effective and achieve the results we all want them to achieve.