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• Reference: 2015/1995
• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 01 July 2015

What is the status of the 'London 2036: an agenda for jobs and growth' plan in relation to the ‘Jobs and Growth Plan for London’?

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 01 July 2015

Caroline Pidgeon MBE AM: I have a specific question for Mr McGrath. Very briefly, Harvey, employment is a key for a stronger economy and you talked very much about this document and yet it does not mention anywhere the challenge of parental employment. Given that around 10% fewer women who are parents in London are in employment compared to the rest of the UK, have you done any work on this issue and perhaps the childcare challenges that the capital faces?

• Question by: Stephen Knight
• Meeting date: 01 July 2015

Stephen Knight AM: Thank you, Chair. My question was on this issue of London’s relationship with the EU, which your report makes quite a few comments about in terms of London ‘staying open for business’. It is quite clear in terms of the need to maintain the relationship with the EU and the dangers of undermining that relationship. In particular, I wanted to ask you about - and I am reading from the report - wanting to: “... strengthen London’s voice on national policies that could put London’s status as the global hub for business and finance at risk: particularly...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I agree with that wholly and Members will recall indeed we proposed a budget amendment at this year's budget debate to provide more policing in suburban London. My concern is that many outer London boroughs in the south of London do not have London Underground service at all, or indeed anywhere near them. Whilst policing on the buses is extremely important, in the commuter areas it is actually the overground rail and the stations and the trackside which is of importance. As you have just said, the public do not make much distinction about which type of uniform the police...

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

OK, but subject to that and to operational needs and local determination, there is no reason why they should not be at times working in the early hours of the morning?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

A lot of the problems that occur associated with transport happen very late at night and in the early hours of the morning, often with dispersal, whether that is on late night buses or particularly with taxis and mini cabs. Will the PCSOs be available at those sort of hours to deal with those sort of problems?

• Reference: 2006/0332-1
• Question by: Dee Doocey
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Are the MPS' public access points fit for purpose?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Commissioner, you mentioned again a term you used to use about the Balkanisation of policing services. You were always opposed to the accreditation of local authority run neighbourhood wardens or whatever term they use in parks police. Are you reconsidering that view, and will you allow accreditation in London as in the rest of the country?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

): I recall two or three years ago, David Veness (former Assistant Commissioner, Specialist Operations, MPS) saying that his biggest problem was the management of complacency, and both of you this morning have referred to that. In that context, how do we know, and how can we convince people, whether the lack of a terrorist incident is due to the success of the anti-terrorist measures or whether the threat is actually being exaggerated, perhaps in the competition for scarce resources?

• Question by: Graham Tope
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

Thank you, Commissioner. I have just heard it muttered here that it is a very difficult question. It is also a very important question is it not, because I think increasingly young people are feeling victimised. We have had the attack on the `hoodies', search arches in schools, reference to juvenile crime as a `raging social cancer tearing away at Britain' and other such colourful language. The vast majority of young people are as law abiding as their elders. Antisocial behaviour covers a wide range from real criminal activity to just larking about. How the police engage in trying to...