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• Reference: 2008/0118
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

How many offences involving i) reactivated and ii) deactivated guns were recorded in each London borough in each of the following years: 1. 2004 2. 2005 3. 2006 4. 2007

• Reference: 2008/0119
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

How many a) charges b) cautions and c) penalty notices of disorder for offences involving i) reactivated and ii) deactivated guns were recorded in each of the following years: 1. 2004 2. 2005 3. 2006 4. 2007

• Reference: 2008/0139
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 30 January 2008

Do you support me in opposing the Metropolitan Police's practice of charging Londoners to recover their stolen property?

• Reference: 2007/2916
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

At the end of November, the Liberal Democrats group on the London Assembly revealed that alcohol-related crime in London has risen by 60% in the last 4 years. Of particular concern are the huge increases in alcohol-related violent crime, drug offences and thefts ' a concern to millions of Londoners. What is your reaction to these trends and what actions have you been taking to reverse them during your second term? Will you now consider making alcohol a central part of your health inequalities strategy and making one of your new Health Advisor appointments a role specifically tasked with tackling...

• Reference: 2007/2895
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

How much has the MPS spent on hire cars in each financial year since 2000/01 to date? What additional costs have been incurred in each of these years for failure to return vehicles in time, damages and any other penalties?

• Reference: 2007/2896
• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Liberal Democrats on the Metropolitan Police Authority have continually called on the Metropolitan Police to improve its public consultation on plans for the future of the police stations in London. Are you satisfied with the way in which the Metropolitan Police is conducting these borough consultations, especially in light of sums of money paid to consultants to assist them in doing so?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

You are quite right; I did raise a lot of issues in a rather long question. I did want to concentrate on where you ended up, which is the Health Inequalities Strategy. I wonder if you could tell us a little bit more about the significance you are planning to place on the problems of alcohol in that strategy.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Yes. I do not think you or I want alcohol to disappear from the world, Mr Mayor. It is certainly not my wish.

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

My desire, as I think you are saying, is to recognise that alcohol is in a sense a drug and does cause as much harm, as does tobacco. The problem is that they are both legal; government gets a lot of revenue from them and yet does not spend enough revenue on tackling the issues that they cause. There is a huge disparity between London boroughs too in treatment here; is your Inequalities Strategy going to tackle that?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 12 December 2007

Still, again looking at the inequalities, one of the inequalities in this is actually the funding that goes to drugs related issues and the funding that goes to alcohol related issues. It may be a minority, but I think it is a relatively large minority who either have an alcohol problem themselves or are involved in crime that is related to alcohol. Not necessarily just antisocial behaviour; a lot of domestic violence is alcohol fuelled for instance. I do not know the figures for London but nationally £946 per head is spent on drugs treatment and only £197 per head...