Search questions

• Reference: 2004/1933
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Do you believe that the additional powers you are to be given over commuter rail in Greater London in the forthcoming Railways Bill will enable you to give Londoners any serious improvement in the standard of their travelling experience during your second term ?

• Reference: 2004/1938
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

How do you reconcile planning 10,000 car parking spaces at Stratford City and similar provision for Silvertown Quays with the aim of making Thames Gateway regeneration sustainable ? Is this not clear evidence that Labour's vision for the Thames Gateway has not moved on from Thamesmead ?

• Reference: 2004/1855
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Can the Mayor provide specific details of the consultation, both formal and informal, undertaken by TfL officer regarding recent changes to the U1 bus route and hard standing areas with a) local residents and b) officers of LB Hillingdon?

• Reference: 2004/1856
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Further to my questions 1128/04 and 1613/2004, who exactly in the GLA is making representation to the MPS on behalf of UK ESF organising committee into this matter and are the minutes of the ESF coordinating committee wrong to name Lee Jasper as the person making representations to the Metropolitan Police?

• Reference: 2004/1858
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

You claimed in answer to my question No.1128/2004, that the ESF meeting referred to (where police surveillance was present) was not a meeting of the UK ESF coordinating committee. Why then did the UK ESF organising committee ask the GLA to look into the matter? What is the relationship between the UK ESF organising committee and the meeting where the police surveillance was present?

• Reference: 2004/1860
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Further to my question No.1128/2004 and 1614 / 2004, can you please provide an update regarding inquiries made by the GLA with the Metropolitan Police regarding the police presence at an ESF meeting as requested by the UK ESF coordinating committee? Why has an answer taken so long to arrive from the Metropolitan Police Service into this matter?

• Reference: 2004/1861
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Does the Mayor think it appropriate for MPS to name new buildings after politicians rather than police officers who have provided dedicated and first class service to Londoners?

• Reference: 2004/1862
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Does the Mayor support providing Government proposals to provide PCSOs with more powers and extra equipment to undertake their duties?

• Reference: 2004/1863
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

What is the Mayor's overall reaction to the Government White Paper "Building Communities: Beating Crime" ? Does he believe that changes to the construction of police authorities should also have been applied to the Metropolitan Police Authority?

• Reference: 2004/1865
• Question by: Lynne Featherstone
• Meeting date: 15 December 2004

Given your acknowledgement, as reported in the Muswell Hill Journal on 3 June 2004, that the Alexandra Palace is a "regional resource" and a "huge financial burden" for the borough of Haringey and that suggested extra funding could be made available to it by the Greater London Authority, could you detail what steps you have taken since June to offer your assistance to Haringey and set out what immediate and/or future plans you have to do so.