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  • Trident Gang Crime Command

    • Reference: 2012/0013-2
    • Question by: Valerie Shawcross
    • Meeting date: 08 March 2012
    Valerie Shawcross (AM): I think the last time you were both in front of us we did speak a little bit about how you were reconfiguring the Trident Gang Crime Command and the considerable number of people who work in that division, was it 500 staff I think you mentioned. Since then there has been seven stabbings in my division and of course a terrible murder of Kwame Ofosu-Asare [March 2012]. We are looking at the performance data that suggests there is a growing problem. Serious youth violence is up over the 12 months rolling period by 4.9%, nearly 5%...
  • Resources (Supplementary) [3]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 08 March 2012
    John Biggs (AM): Yes. If I can get away with that, I have four questions, but they should all be fairly short. The first is on early departures. Do you have a number of officers who have indicated that they want to go, but not until after the Olympics? Do you have the measure of that?
  • Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Valerie Shawcross
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    I think you used the phrase `extremely excluded', and I would be interested to hear what disaggregated information there is about the people in poverty that we are talking about, because my experience has been that there are some people in our communities, some communities in fact, which are so extremely poor and excluded that I am not sure that the state is even capable of inter-meshing with the levels of poverty that they are experiencing. For example, there are members of the Somalian community in London, of whom probably more than 75% are unemployed, who cannot afford to dress...
  • Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    These families are generally led by women; I wondered how significant you thought the gender pay-gap in London was, which is increasing - widening - here, whereas it isn't in the rest of the country. I understand that the most typical job for a woman here is paid at £5.30 an hour, whereas the most typical job for a man is paid at £17.50 an hour.
  • Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [9]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    I was just wondering what the impact of the minimum wage has been in London in reducing relative poverty. Clearly, it affects those in employment, rather than those outside it, but I would like some idea of what the experts feel has been the impact.
  • Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [11]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    You've just said that the proportion of children living below the poverty line in lone-parent families is high ' I do not know if you have the exact figures?
  • Incidence and Nature of Poverty in London (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: Murad Qureshi
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    I understand that there should be a London rate, and I think there has been work done on that, on the living wage. Coming back to Kate (Green)'s point that tax credits are more significant, one of the experiences I have come across is that the bureaucracy of targeted financial programmes can be such that it actually puts off a lot of people from sitting down and putting in the applications that they are perfectly entitled to make. I don't know if you have got any thoughts on that, and how that can be cleared up so that it's a...
  • Tackling Child Poverty (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: John Biggs
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    I think this is a fantastically important matter, and I suppose the problem I have with Dee Doocey's question is that it's very easy to try to put a number on this and say that £4 billion will solve the problem. I think we all know that out there there's a scepticism in the wider public that we are spending more on public services. I'd like more to be spent on my constituency in East London. People are asking whether we are getting sufficient value out of it, whether our services are sufficiently functional and so on, so clearly, there...
  • Role of Faith Groups in Tackling Hard to Reach Groups (Supplementary) [4]

    • Question by: Valerie Shawcross
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    So, do you think that there is much more potential for the faith sector to address problems, and help the most extremely poor communities to move on, if they had more support from the state.
  • Role of Faith Groups in Tackling Hard to Reach Groups (Supplementary) [5]

    • Question by: Valerie Shawcross
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    I concur with your experience, Bishop, about the work of faith groups within the community, and I have seen some excellent, proactive work done by faith groups. However, there does seem to me to be a gap, and I wonder if my anecdotal experience is confirmed by your broader experience, that even some of the most energetic and creative churches, and, indeed, mosques, where they are falling over themselves with political visitors, nonetheless find that, when it comes to cutting the deal, and getting some cash resources from the local state, or the state generally, the resource isn't coming into...