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• Reference: 2001/0312-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Will you write to the Home Secretary to express your concern about the dramatic increase in the number of failed asylum applicants who the police are required to arrest? Will you ask the Government to urgently review the targets which have been set for the Immigration Service in London for the detention and repatriation of asylum seekers? .

• Reference: 2001/0308-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

What type of services will the MPS be providing in return for the £25m highlighted in the TfL budget as the new Traffic Policing Initiative? Will these services include road safety work beyond the 20 key transport corridors? Will these services include dealing with speeding and traffic offences in general, or just offences relating to the bus routes? Will these services include helping local authority officers with roadside emission testing? .

• Reference: 2001/0309-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Will the MPS staff providing these traffic policing services for TfL be in addition to existing MPS staff? What will be the consequences for staffing and traffic policing work, of TfL not having sufficient funds to finance this work? .

• Reference: 2001/0310-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

How much will be released from the MPA budget when the Metropolitan Police Control Centre is transfered and absorbed into the TfL run London Traffic Control Centre? Will this money be retained for road safety and traffic offences work? .

• Reference: 2001/0311-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

How will the aim of 'improving safety on London's Transport Routes' be achieved through next years MPA budget allocation? .

• Reference: 2001/0313-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

What are the estimated costs in police time and resources of the increased activity of the Immigration Service? How long will it be before a single building for processing failed asylum seeker applicants has been set up in London? Have you tried to raise with the Home Secretary all of the concerns identified in the September 20th report on this subject? .

• Reference: 2001/0314-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

What reductions in expenditure have or will need to be made to achieve the Mayors financial remit for 2002/3 i.e. inflation at 2% plus the cost of another 1000 police officers? .

• Reference: 2001/0315-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Can you bring us up to date on the cost and financing of the additional security measures post 11th September? Will the Chancellors announcement in his pre-budget statement of additional funds for the period upto 31 March 2002 adequately compensate the police for the extra costs? .

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

You know that I am always singing the praise of the Havering Road Safety Unit which is two very dedicated officers. Have you had a chance to actually explore the sort of work that they are doing, the results they are getting on an incredibly small budget?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

I think part of the problem with the whole issue of road safety is that it is simply not understood how important this issue is if you compare the number of people killed on the roads to the number of people murdered and also the number of people seriously injured on the roads. Is there any way, do you think, that we could increase public knowledge and also police understanding of how important this issue is?