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• Reference: 2015/1564
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

With the Metropolitan Police Service needing to make £800m in savings, it will become increasingly vital that it can deliver more with less. What role does technology have to play in providing London with a police force fit for the 21st century?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 03 June 2015

Mr Mayor, I do not like to kick a man when he is down, but I am always willing to make an exception in the case of the Liberal Democrats. You have mentioned Nick de Bois’ attempts to introduce mandatory prison sentences for second offences of possession of a knife. Do you recall that it was in fact the Liberal Democrats who opposed that amendment?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 05 March 2014

It was widely said by your political opponents that in times of cuts and recession crime was likely to increase in London. We have heard from you and we have heard from the Commissioner, very encouragingly, that crime figures are improving, crime rates are going down. Can you assure me, and indeed London, that crime truly is decreasing, or is it related to the fact that crime is being screened out?

• Reference: 2010/0181-1
• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

What preparations have the LDA made for the transition into the GLA?

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 10 November 2010

I would like to return, please, to the question which was raised by John Biggs about the possible burden on London council taxpayers of the change of control. It is clear that there are going to be some continuing obligations which the LDA has entered into which are going to have to continue to be paid for. I want to know how you decide how the payments are going to be made? If those payments are going to be made, where is the money coming from? As I understand it, the vast bulk of the money which Government is going...

• Question by: Tony Arbour
• Meeting date: 13 January 2010

You will know that Members on this side are very sceptical of the role that the LDA is proposing to play in the establishment of academies. Do you not think it would be infinitely more sensible and more attuned to your statutory role if such monies as you have available for education were channelled into providing apprenticeships, training for real jobs, rather than what some of us see as a kind of Trojan horse for re-establishing the Inner London Education Authority?