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• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

It does, and I can go on but if you have got anything to tell me other than you have already told Tony Arbour, who asked my question under a supplementary, please do. If you do not, may I explore another area?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Thank you. Safer Neighbourhood Policing is your baby. It is your stamp as the new Commissioner and it is your stamp on policing in London. Therefore, if you cannot get enough money for an expansion of neighbourhood policing, your reputation is at risk. Are you sure that you are actually going to get 6,000 PCSOs paid for from the Home Office?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Neighbourhood policing is very expensive. In the next two years £90 million, £100 million, something like this, for the expansion. I was in fact going to ask exactly about the £300 million that you hope to get out of your review, whether you would use any of that, and it would be right to use our own resources. I believe that the neighbourhood policing now is all rolled out in the first quarter of the year, funded by £2.8 million from the underspend which we are having this year. I think the underspend now, net of this £2.8 million, is...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Can I just ask if it was your idea to actually roll out all these neighbourhood units in the first quarter of the year, or were you asked to do it from somewhere else?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

It would have given us 70 officers. It would have given us maybe two extra officers per borough, which would have been great.

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

No, I am dealing with finance here.

• Reference: 2005/0235-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

In light of the present underspend on the Metropolitan Police budget, which has a historical precedent, and as London would now have an extra 70 officers on the streets were it not for the 2% cap on the RAF, do you now consider the cap was necessary?

• Reference: 2005/0236-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Do you believe having more officers on streets increases or decreases the reporting of crime?

• Reference: 2005/0266-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Is the MPs working with schools to stop the culture of pupils carrying knives? Please elaborate on such programmes.

• Reference: 2005/0237-1
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Does the Commissioner believe that there will be adequate funding in 2006/07 and 2007/08 for the additional 400 Safer Neighbourhood Teams required to meet the Mayor's Policing Strategy or will a significant increase in the MPA budget be required?