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• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

No, frankly, there is a lot of truth there and I have asked would you agree with me? I have asked my Safer Neighbourhood Teams last week, 'All right, there are all these gangs in Wandsworth, which of these are in my ward?' and they said, 'Well, actually you do not have any in your ward, but you have a lot of youngsters who belong to gangs and leave their homes across the borough to another gang in Battersea, sometimes in Lambeth.' They are moving around and you are not going to tell me that their parents give them loads...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

I am sorry, but I never thought I would hear the Mayor of London being so naïve. These are extremely young people. You are talking about 18 year olds but I am talking about 12 year olds, 11 year olds, 13 year olds, and they are still often on the buses. Obviously you get tucked up in bed with your young family ' well good on you ' but some of the rest of us are actually travelling around London at that time of night visiting various constituencies in our capacity as Assembly Members. You will not appreciate that there...

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

It is not a question of can the Tories be trusted but can you, Mr Mayor, be trusted to take things seriously. I am not here to have a political knock-about with you. This is a very serious issue and you have quite clearly not woken up to it. Did you not read The Evening Standard on 24 August naming the gangs of London? Quite a frightener; I thought it was quite startling, quite frightening and I am on the MPA (Metropolitan Police Authority). It is about time the Mayor did something to get under this criminality because in fact...

• Reference: 2007/2137
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

Would the Mayor accept that there is a need for a cut off point in the evening for free travel for young people, given that this may facilitate the movement of gang members across London?

• Reference: 2007/2139
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

How closely linked will the Mayor's Health Inequalities Strategy be with the potential development of the proposals in 'Healthcare for London: A Framework for Action'?

• Reference: 2007/2136
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

Does the Mayor believe that the decision to close the escalators at both Tooting Broadway and Tooting Bec at the same time shows good planning on the part of TfL and a reasonable level of consideration for the needs of elderly people, disabled people and mothers with buggies?

• Reference: 2007/2138
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

Is the major emphasis on income inequality in the Mayor's recent report 'Reducing health inequalities' part of a long-term aim by the Mayor to increase taxation on Londoners?

• Reference: 2007/2140
• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 12 September 2007

How does the Mayor intend to improve the use of Health Impact Assessments, as mentioned on page 6 of his report 'Reducing health inequalities'?

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

Your Board says that they only deal with policy, but surely your Board and yourself would have much more power to push the Learning and Skills Council just a little bit more and get them a bit more imaginative, so in fact some kids that have skills in their hands could be plumbers and construction workers. If it was not for the Poles we would not be able to construct half of London at the moment!

• Question by: Elizabeth Howlett
• Meeting date: 18 July 2007

Thank you very much. A few of us had a meeting with a couple of Members from your Board and also, on the following day, with Members of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). They referred to there being 69% employment in London. I turned it round the other way: 31% in London are unemployed. While they assured me that there was no skills shortage as such, because people are being imported from Europe and from other parts of the country to fill these jobs here in London, there are 31% native Londoners who are still on the unemployment register...