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  • Post Office Closures

    • Reference: 2007/3069
    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 12 December 2007
    Given that the date of the GLA elections is well-known in advance, why does the Mayor think the date of the public consultation on Post Office Closures has only recently been brought forwards from April to February?

  • Skills Strategy (2)

    • Reference: 2007/3071
    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 12 December 2007
    As local authorities will have a big role to play in implementing any skills strategy from the Mayor, how involved have they been in the production of the draft strategy?

  • Apprentice Schemes/Construction

    • Reference: 2007/0049-1
    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 10 November 2007
    How much money has been invested into boosting apprenticeships and pathways into construction?

  • Heat Maps

    • Reference: 2006/3011
    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 13 December 2006
    Was the Mayor involved in any discussions with the Government over the Department of Health "Heat Maps"?

  • Role of Education, Training & Employment in Lifting People out of Poverty (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    Certainly my perception is that the LSC has failed to encourage a breadth of skills training, and that's why we have this deficit in the building trade. Joiners, plumbers, they are all Europeans coming in and filling these jobs, and the indigenous population in young people leaving schools are not getting a chance because they do not have the skills and there is somehow no way that they can get the training. So, I am afraid, this is very true and I see this all the time in my constituencies. There is, actually, a wonderful life for people who have...

  • Role of Education, Training & Employment in Lifting People out of Poverty (Supplementary) [12]

    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 19 July 2006
    What I wanted to ask about is the skills shortage that there is in London, and, Mr Ross, you touched on that at the very start of this meeting. There are whole areas of skills in the building trade which we do not have any longer, and so, therefore, people from Europe are walking into jobs here instead of the indigenous population. What I was going to suggest to the Mayor, now he is in charge of the Learning and Skills Board and stuff, and the new strategy, why do we not think of going back to the apprenticeship scheme...

  • Children in care

    • Reference: 2005/1446
    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 20 July 2005
    Has the Mayor had any discussions, or plans for any discussions, with London's local authorities regarding the large number of children placed in care far away from home in the Thanet area of Kent?

  • Community Safety

    • Reference: 2005/0265-1
    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 15 June 2005
    Why is it with 30,000 police officers on the streets of London, that residents are complaining that they see no foot patrols and response times to many crimes are so slow?

  • Step Change Programme

    • Reference: 2003/0418
    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 10 December 2003
    Given the poor grant settlement from Government and the Mayor's declared intention that the Government should pay for extra officers, what chance has the Step Change programme got of being implemented? .

  • Sutton's Recycling Scheme

    • Reference: 2001/0241-1
    • Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2001
    How has the incompetence uncovered in the recycling data presented by Sutton affected the Mayor's targets for the rest of London? .