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  • Victims of Crime (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 08 March 2012
    Tony Arbour (AM): I have been looking at this card, and I have to say I am not sure I agree with you, Kit, that people do not expect criminals to be caught. I seem to recall Kit Malthouse (Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime): They do. Tony Arbour (AM): the saintly Sir Robert Peel [Home Secretary who established the Metropolitan Police Force in the 1820s], when he put down the things of people being caught and brought to justice; no mention of that on the card. The key thing about this card which I note is that it says...

  • Resources (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 08 March 2012
    Tony Arbour (AM): On the specific point which John raised with you relating to the legal cost, are you telling us that it is possible that Lord Blair, Lord Stevens and other former luminaries at the top of the Metropolitan Police Service, we have paid to give them legal advice before they have gone to Leveson?

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [13]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    I'm trying to find out what powers you actually have when the Mayor is away. Supposing there was a 11 September situation, for example a plane crashed into the House of Commons, the Mayor was in Australia, all flights were postponed, as they were after 11 September, and there's you, in London, in charge. What actions could you take in such a situation?

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [14]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    I was not suggesting anything like that. I was asking you what real decisions you would make. Despite the marvels of modern communication, it seems unlikely that it would be possible to communicate, even with your literary skills, precisely what was happening here in London to the Mayor, and the chances are therefore that you would have to make some decisions on your own. What kind of decisions would they be? Indeed, what decisions have you made on your own?

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [16]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    So you would accept that you could not reassure Londoners, despite the fact that you are the anointed one, that the Mayor has laid his hands upon you and that he has given you full powers?

  • Questions to Simon Fletcher, Chief of Staff to the Mayor (Supplementary) [17]

    • Question by: Tony Arbour
    • Meeting date: 12 June 2002
    Would you write her speeches in those circumstances?