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• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

There is a delay because of the Government's review which has led them to refuse to consider requests for a designation.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Thank you for that answer. I freely admit this is a semi-planted question. The question is not planted but I received a briefing from the police several months ago precisely as part of the strategy which I think the Authority supports of seeking to reclaim funding for policing at London City Airport, and I quite strongly support that, it is a very profitable enterprise. As I understand it the figures are that currently policing at Heathrow costs roughly £48 million a year, of which we recover £26 million, and we want to increase that to £35 million. From the public...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

London City Airport; roughly we spend £7 million on policing - I think this is public information - and we are hoping to recover £5 million of that £7 million from them. That is not unreasonable.

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Obviously you will be talking to the new owners about their cooperation as security is a very sensitive issue in terms of aviation. My other question, which I think is a very important one for Londoners, is has there ever been an occasion because of the lack of reimbursement where the police service has taken a decision to provide fewer police to support airport security operations than it otherwise would have done?

• Reference: 2006/0280-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

What steps are you taking to recover costs of policing Heathrow? Why can't you recover the full costs instead of a proportion of costs? Is the shortfall resulting in cutbacks of policing services either at Heathrow or elsewhere? What has BAA offered so far by way of settlement? And are similar recovery efforts being made for London's other airports?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I was very keen to ask this question because I was hoping I would get that sort of answer, which is that I think there is a hell of a lot of good work in this area - and let us be very clear this is not a party political question because there are, I think when you are honest about this, Labour boroughs who are good, there are some who are less good, there are Conservative boroughs who are good and there are some who are less good. What worries me in your answer is that, whilst I agree...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I thought I might, with your indulgence, Chair, just start the ball rolling by giving one example, very briefly, of good practice which was given to me in my briefing, which is in the Slade Green area of the London borough of Bexley, where Bexley is I think held up as a very good practitioner of community partnerships between the police and the local authority and the voluntary sector and other players, and it has had material benefits, and I guess one thing that would be very helpful in helping to clarify this whole area is to grandstand and exemplify...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I thought perhaps I should start by correcting something that Angie (Bray) said, which is of course that the Conservative Party had two positions on identity cards. I was quite interested in this debate, but I was wondering if we could explore it in another direction in terms of policing, which is about the value and usage of biometric data, and I think I have two questions. The first is whether you think ' and I suspect I know what the answer is ' Londoners should welcome or fear the growing development of biometric testing? For example, whether or not...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Thank you, and on balance do you think this is something that Londoners should welcome, the cautious approach of the MPA, or do you think we should be blazing a trail on this because other crimes might be detected which are currently not being detected?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

John Biggs (AM): Could I just pursue this slightly, and you may decide that this is a question that it is not appropriate for you to answer -- Sir Ian Blair (Commissioner, MPS): I will keep looking at the Chair then - - John Biggs (AM): The Chair will rule me out of order perhaps, but given that there is a development of biometric testing across the world and I think private sector employers in the UK are using it and so on, do you think the police service has a role in ensuring that there are standards which are...