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• Reference: 2008/0001
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

How does the Mayor intend to meet his environmental and housing objectives?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

Thank you very much. You have told us lots about your good intentions and your principles and so on - and indeed about 90% of what you have said was about your intentions - but not what you have actually achieved. That really is rather like the expenditure that there has been on these programmes. Is it good value for money that, of the £2.7 million that has been spent on the Green Homes programme, £2.2 million of that has been spent on publicity and only £300,000 on actual insulation grant? Would you not say that the whole thing is...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 16 January 2008

The truth of the matter is, and this really is to the Deputy Mayor, that this was a publicity campaign. There was never any belief that there would be a substantial take'up, as indeed there was not a substantial take-up. It is a fact that every single one of the campaigns that you have had which do not involve compulsion relating to saving energy has been a complete failure. I wonder if I can put to you the amount of money that you have spent on Recycle for London; the Mayor has spent almost £1 million on this over the...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Sir Ian (Blair), you mentioned, I think it was first time I have heard it mentioned, that you appeared to concede that there is going to be a difference between Safer Neighbourhoods and non-Safer Neighbourhoods. Yet it is your aspiration, it is the aspiration of the MPA and it is the aspiration of Government, to see that every neighbourhood will be a Safer Neighbourhood. When will this happen? When will every neighbourhood be a Safer Neighbourhood, and how do you believe it will be funded?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Therefore, with no funding it will not happen?

• Reference: 2005/0211-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

What was the total annual cost of diversity and equalities training etc in each year 2000 - 2004? How much time do officers of each rank spend on diversity - equalities etc training each year 2000 - 2004?

• Reference: 2005/0212-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

What was the total annual cost of crime prevention activities by the MPS in the community in each year 2000 - 2004? How much time do officers of each rank spend on crime prevention activities in the community each year 2000 - 2004?

• Reference: 2005/0213-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

What is being done to speed up responses to telephone calls to the police in Richmond upon Thames? When will Richmond upon Thames be incorporated into the new system being installed by the MPS?

• Reference: 2005/0214-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

How many police officers and PCSOs have not got their own personal police radios?

• Reference: 2005/0215-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

a. Has the shortage of police cells in South West London affected the number of arrests being made by local police? b. What is the programme for bringing more police cells in to use in SW London? c. What are the opportunity costs of having to transport a prisoner from Richmond to cells at Bexley and back to appear in Court at Richmond?