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• Reference: 2012/0040-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

In your answer to question 1372 / 2012 you state that 'A series of key stakeholder workshops will be organised in June which will allow various parties to discuss their aspirations for the work at King's Cross Gyratory and to highlight the issues that affect local residents.' Given the confusion that has arisen with my constituents regarding works to the King's Cross Gyratory in the past can you please answer each of the following in full: a) Please provide a list of all the 'key stakeholder groups' who will be invited to these workshops b) Please outline details of how...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 20 June 2012

Yes, Peter, and that is the sort of response I have been getting for the last couple of years, and luckily I can say to you that the Borough of Lambeth have recently run a most successful campaign using ads; it is the campaign 'Know the Difference'. It is a campaign that Assembly Member Kit Malthouse in his role when he was head of Mayor's Office for Police and Crime (MOPAC) endorsed and commended. It has been taken onboard by other people and the only organisation that did not commit to it locally in Lambeth was TfL. These campaigns were...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Will you accept that you played your role in misleading the public in terms of what you had to say before you were elected? In fact it seems to me, on reading Sir Ian's [Blair] [former Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service] book, that you were willing to say absolutely anything to get yourself elected. I quote him when he said, 'You cannot go on talking down the fall in crime in London which they have achieved, they need to know you care about them and the way that we can work together.' You looked him straight in the face and replied...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Can I just follow on and pick up the themes about reputational damage and confidence. I wanted to start with the Commissioner, just to ask whether he wanted to use this opportunity to assure us about how widespread the work is, across London, about the issue of confidence. When you think that in the paper yesterday we saw reports that one of your departments sent out a note asking for the images of police in the public domain to be deleted and only images that presented the police in a good light to be used, have you got anything to...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Sorry, it is not about percentages. It is just: are you saying that there is a commitment and that we will not see boards made up of white men in suits?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

It is just a quick one following on from the issues John (Biggs) has raised. This is about representation and perception. The ethnic diversity of London was, quite rightly, acknowledged within the bid, and our presentation team and the inclusion of the athletes made the work to date, if you like, ethnically representative. It does, however, concern me that if you look at the people now lining up to sit in the seats of power ' the ODA, LOCOG, the Olympic Board ' all I expect to see is white men in suits. Are you as concerned as I that...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Thank you for that answer, Mayor, but I have three areas on which I would just like to pin you down. Can I just start with cultural education. I welcome that announcement that you have just made about the commitment following the Games for the maintenance of the Park, because it seems to me that we can judge whether an Olympics was successful in two ways: the gold medals and all their absolute wonder of the sport, and also we judge when we look back at where the Olympic Games were held, and what it is like there following the...

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

I am sure you will get a lot of support for that position. Can I just move on then to health? Currently, Londoners are less physically active than the average for England, and certainly, London's children and young people have a higher level of obesity than other regions in England. A health impact assessment study commissioned by the London Health Commission has demonstrated the potential for the longer-term health benefits of hosting the Olympic Games. Could you just tell us, briefly, how can you ensure that these are delivered? What about health? How can we get the legacy for a...

• Reference: 2005/0348-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

(a) Can you clarify how the ODA's powers of direction over TfL will operate? (b) If the ODA is able to fund major transport projects related to the Olympic Games, how will this affect TfL's current funding arrangements?

• Reference: 2005/0364-1
• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

Who will have responsibility for planning and delivering the cultural and education programmes of the Olympic Games?