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• Reference: 2012/0023-2
• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 31 May 2012

The Commissioner has said that he wants a new approach to stop and search. He told the Metropolitan Police Authority last year that he hoped to have a new policy in place for the New Year, and he told us last time he was here that that is still his view, but that there would be some consultation with communities and with ourselves and the stakeholders about that new approach. We have not heard of any consultation at the moment on what the new approach is, so could you just let us know firstly what the timescales are, what steps...

• Reference: 2012/0011-2
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 March 2012

Yes, I do have some questions about the flawed police investigation that followed the fatal stabbing of Stephen Lawrence 19 years ago. I am sure I am not the only one but I just would like to say that so many people who have, if you like, been associated by just their feelings of sympathy and empathy with the family over the years would have been in a state of shock on reading that article. I would just like the Deputy Commissioner to say, if possible, what has been the response from the service to this article and this article...

• Reference: 2012/0012-2
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 08 March 2012

Jenny Jones (AM): It is really difficult to know where to start. This has been going on for eight and a half years now and that is a long time in human terms, in Metropolitan Police Service terms of course it is just a click of the fingers. I think I first wrote to the Chief Executive, I cannot remember, it might have been 2004, about this when Mr Ahmad actually approached me, and it just seems to be so turgid, the whole process, that the Metropolitan Police Service is constantly to be forced to do anything about this. You...

• Reference: 2012/0014-2
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 March 2012

Jennette Arnold OBE (AM): I have a few questions. I wonder, Kit, if I can ask you in your role as Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime what assessment you plan to make of the MPS' strategy and policy to address hate crime? I say that given this, I think, quite large increase of 7.6% around disability crime offences that we can see on the performance figures that you have given to us. Also, I just wanted to focus as well on hate crime and crimes against older people, because the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) February 2012 report shows an...

• Reference: 2008/0577
• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

In your 3rd term, will you be working with Housing Associations who fail to consult on major regeneration proposals if they approach you for funding of the affordable housing elements?

• Reference: 2008/0587
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Given that up to 40% of food packaging still cannot be recycled, what efforts have you made, as part of your Food Strategy, to work with the supermarkets towards achieving closed loop recycling and materials systems in their business practices?

• Reference: 2008/0615
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

While your proposals to make Windsor House and 55 Broadway more environmentally sustainable are welcome, can you make a statement on how much longer you intend that Transport for London and London Underground will occupy these buildings?

• Reference: 2008/0617
• Question by: Geoff Pope
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

What would be the cost in a full year of employing staff on 'bendy' buses to check tickets and bear down on anti-social behaviour ?

• Reference: 2008/0632
• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 12 March 2008

Since you have been so insistent in the past that LFEPA's board should be representative of the community it serves why would you have "grave" concerns about the appointment of a black woman to the board?

• Reference: 2008/0475
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 20 February 2008

Will the Mayor please confirm the total cost to the London Development Agency of seeking legal counsel relating to the summons to appear before the extraordinary meeting of the London Assembly on 7th February 2008?