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• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

It is very good to see a clear commitment in the Housing Strategy, not just to deal with these issues of supply/quantity, but also address issues of quality. Perhaps one issue that Dee has left out of that long list of points about diverse supply etc, is the question of lifetime homes. Now, there was very clear statement in the London Plan, and it is here again in the Housing Strategy, that we would like basically to see all new homes meet a lifetime home standard and we would like to see a significant number - 10%, I think -...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 24 October 2007

Do you think the Mayor would be interested in seeing the housing association sector restructured somewhat in London, to avoid some of the problems of lack of economies of scale and fragmentation that we see at the moment that undermine the quality of housing and estate management?

• Reference: 2002/0302-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

What plans are in place to extend the use of defibrillators and oxygen support? And what plans are in place to introduce a first responder and a co-responder scheme across services in London? .

• Reference: 2002/0303-1
• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

Would you, Neale, be willing to host a seminar to bring together those across the public services who work those who suffer from mental health problems to share best practice? .

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

As you are aware, in urban deprived communities one of the aspects of ill health that is much increased is mental illness. In Lambeth, we've got six times the national average for mental illness. We've got the highest rate of mental illness in the entire world. And the South London Maudsley NHS Trust has been doing some very innovative work on early intervention, trying to get to people in the system, particularly young men, before their problems become too serious. Can you say something about what the GLA is doing in the field of mental health, since it does have...

• Question by: Valerie Shawcross
• Meeting date: 11 December 2002

16,000 Londoners die every year from coronary heart disease. It would be difficult to kill that many with a machine gun if you walked around the streets of London; 16,000 people. It's a huge epidemic. Survival rates from cardiac arrests are around 2% in London, which is one of the lowest, I think, in the western world. What is the GLA going to do about improving cardiac emergency care, defribulation, oxygen support schemes?