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• Reference: 2013/0012-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 05 June 2013

Given the windfall gains that land and property owners benefit from when transport infrastructure is built, could a tax on those gains help pay for the infrastructure?

• Reference: 2013/0013-1
• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 05 June 2013

Darren Johnson (Chair): We then move to item 4, which is the question and answer session on the London Finance Commission (LFC) and we welcome Professor Tony Travers, the Chair of that Commission, to answer questions. Each group has a lead-off question, but we will begin with a brief opening statement from Professor Travers.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

This is an incredibly difficult area because in fact you do not want to stop whistle-blowers. You do not want to stop the police officers who are reporting on illegal activities within the Metropolitan Police Service. You want them to come forward. At the same time, you do not want false allegations leaked. In the past, the Metropolitan Police Service has had incidents where that has happened and officers do not seem to have been published. We have the de Menezes stuff and we have the Tomlinson stuff. Metropolitan Police Service officers have got away with false allegations or false...

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 20 December 2012

I wanted to bring us on to the topic of violence against women and children. I think you know that we are doing a piece of work on it at the moment. We have met with women's support organisations and so on, with a view to presenting that report to MOPAC and then having it feed into your update to the Mayor's strategy. That is all going fairly smoothly at the moment. I wanted to ask you in particular about two of the Mayor's pledges on domestic violence. One of them was that he has pledged to maintain the number...

• Reference: 2012/0218-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 24 October 2012

Should we shift the balance of taxation in London from income to wealth, for example with a land value tax?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 27 September 2012

Jenny Jones (Deputy Chair): Thank you. Mr Mackey, how many vans are there that you are going to -- Craig Mackey (Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police): Right across the Metropolitan Police Service? I do not have the exact figure. Jenny Jones (Deputy Chair): I am just wondering, roughly.

• Reference: 2012/0032-2
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 June 2012

I want to ask you some questions on undercover policing. Are you satisfied with the result of the Commissioner's review into undercover operations?

• Reference: 2012/0033-2
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 21 June 2012

Can you tell us what lessons were learnt from the policing of the Occupy London protest that was held outside the Bank of England on 12 May this year?