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• Reference: 2011/0257-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 07 December 2011

What will policing in London look like in 2 years time?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

): I am sure Members will have detailed questions on that wider experience and the work you are doing to keep the capital moving and so forth. All that good work though will be lost if the message does not get out that the wider Games experience has been a success. So I just wanted to start by concentrating on the narrow but important point of the non-accredited media and your arrangements around that, and I am sure the Members will widen it from there. As I understand it, there is about 20,000 or so expected on the accredited side...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

I don't know whether this question would be for Neale or Vince. I want to pick up the issue of all these events that are going to be happening across London and I know there is the London Events Coordination Calendar and there is the Culture Diary. I think, in your recent answer to my colleague Dee Doocey, you said there were already over 4,000 events in the Culture Diary. However, you closed those diaries at the end of March, which seems a bit strange to me when clearly people would still be planning their events. I am told, looking...

• Reference: 2010/0170-1
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

How do you envisage the future of Borough policing and Safer Neighbourhood Teams?

• Reference: 2010/0206-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

Dee Doocey (Chair): We now come to the session on policing. Can I formally welcome Kit Malthouse, in his capacity as Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, and Sir Paul Stephenson, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. I know that both Kit and Sir Paul wish to make an opening statement. Just to explain how things are going to work, the questions we have got in today are quite unusual in that they are all quite similar, so it has been agreed that each question will be put in turn and the questioner will have the opportunity to ask two...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

I would like to pick up a couple of the issues from earlier. I am, Sir Paul, really reassured in your commitment to Safer Neighbourhood Teams and, particularly, that you are nervous about moving away from the ward-based model; I certainly am as well. It is very reassuring compared to what I have heard the Assistant Commissioner in Territorial Policing say. I found that he clearly has ideas to change TP completely. You said to Richard [Tracey] that that might be Surrey, this is London. It seems to me Ian McPherson's ideas come from Norfolk, and that is not London...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Sorry, can I stop you there. There are new powers for boroughs to monitor them, but there is no new money for boroughs to do it. Without the funding it is very difficult to see how boroughs can monitor Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs).

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

No, but the Mayor can make representations to the Government to try and explain that there is no point having a strategy that says, 'Boroughs will look after HMOs and will monitor them' if there is no money in order for them to do it. So, what I am asking is that the Mayor is much more proactive in pushing central government for local government's case, for them to get some more money, and working much more in tandem with boroughs, rather than at the moment there tends to be certainly a perception that the Mayor is one side and...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

My concern about this whole thing - the overall concern - is that I think it is very easy to say, 'We have decided that boroughs should do (a), (b), (c) and (d)'. It sounds good: 'We will therefore say we will have 50% of this and 70/30 mix', but if boroughs do not have the money in order to do this, there is no point saying, 'The Mayor's Strategy is that the boroughs will deliver', because the boroughs really do need money in order to deliver. With the best will in the world they cannot do it if they...

• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Surely the emphasis ought to be on providing better accommodation for older people, which might persuade them to move on from under-occupying homes - one in four homes in London are under-occupied - and therefore trying to free up at the top, which will eventually free up at the bottom, for the hostels? There does not seem to be too much emphasis on that. I am concerned that nothing that you have said has led me to believe that the problem is going to be addressed, of people with mental problems in hostels not having appropriate support and accommodation.