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• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 08 June 2011

Last month I was fortunate enough to tour Romford Town Centre with the Borough Commander, who showed me the work that has been done to tackle crime associated with the night time economy which is a serious problem for us in Romford. Regrettably last month we had a shooting which is quite unusual. Stabbings and violence is not unusual but a shooting is. Can you explain how you are going to tackle crime in places like Romford in the night time economy set against this background of austerity that we need to deal with?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 08 June 2011

This question is about the effect of budget cuts on police work but I think the public always ask, 'All right about the police work but what about unnecessary bureaucracy?' Do you both feel you are bearing down enough on unnecessary bureaucracy? I am thinking of the pursuit of targets and box ticking which was brought in largely by the last Government. For example, I believe the Home Office has suggested that the Policing Pledge should go. Are you going to remove the Policing Pledge in the MPS or not? Are you doing enough on bureaucracy or is Government perhaps...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 June 2011

A patrol base moved in one of my boroughs recently and inadvertently as a result of that local youths in the neighbourhood of the old patrol base got a signal that they were being paid less attention by the police. Do you recognise that closing a police station gives signals which may be above and beyond the value which you may attach in terms of numbers of visits?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 08 June 2011

This may be more a question for Kit Malthouse, as an accountant. Are you satisfied that the MPS property estate management is as fast on its feet as it ought to be? Because it does seem to me that in the last few years we were at one point in a considerable property boom and I got the impression that a lot of opportunities were missed at that stage. What is your view?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 08 June 2011

Could you tell me how the rapid response experiment has been going, in terms of using resources more efficiently?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

My question is to Richard (Brown). I welcome the comments you made about the fact that everything must be done to avoid Thames Gateway being `dull'. I just want to take you a bit further and say, rather than stopping it being dull, would you agree with me that perhaps one of the things that we need to see developing quite quickly, because it has not had much time spent on it, is a cultural and creative strategy for Thames Gateway, including the existing cultural infrastructure, and I would include Havering and the established centres, so that you do not...

• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 17 March 2004