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• Reference: 2003/0357
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Do you believe that having the Mayor direct the work of borough commanders would: 1) Improve local accountability or 2) Improve local policing? .

• Reference: 2003/0377
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Which issue raised in the Green paper on policing do you believe have already been addressed by the MPS and MPA? .

• Reference: 2003/0382
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

How many MPS officers and civilian staff are deployed at airports and ports .

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

I wanted to give either the Commissioner or the Chair an opportunity perhaps to amend a false impression that has been created in the media recently that the police are in some way opposed to traffic calming. Certainly my post-bag tells me that this is an issue that people are very anxious about in the community; I think Jenny is absolutely right about that. Secondly, where boroughs seem in my view to be ill-advisedly removing traffic calming, might the police take a view as to whether those boroughs are being unhelpful in their role of protecting public safety.

• Reference: 2002/0170-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Has the MPA made any progress on the issues raised at the special meeting of the authority held in January to discuss deaths in custody? What if any discussions have been held since then? .

• Reference: 2002/0171-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Can you provide figures for each of the following for the last financial year: 1.The number of Metropolitan police officers assaulted while on duty? 2.The number of MPS traffic wardens assaulted on duty? 3.The number of Metropolitan police officers accidentally injured on duty? 4.The number of accidents involving police cars and where these occur? .

• Reference: 2002/0172-1
• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

Is Barking and Dagenham likely to get a new police station sometime in the near future? .

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

And how much have you received?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I'm delighted to report, Chair, that the gunners across the river haven't quite found their range yet! My question is about education, because clearly if we're going to avoid the construction of incinerators, we need to change people's mind in London. And there is quite a lot of good on the ground work in individual boroughs, but there is a London-wide responsibility for an education campaign. Can Mr Duffy tell me what steps he's taking to ensure that's the most effective campaign that's possible?

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

I don't intentionally want to fill the time, but I find those rather inadequate answers, and I put it to Mr Duffy that a problem with this was that the bids were rather inadequate and didn't show the sort of vision and leadership that London should be showing on waste minimisation and on education. A couple of sound-bites is not itself enough. It's got to be joined up with the boroughs. It's got to be an effective, driven campaign, with leadership from London. Do you think that London is offering the leadership on this that it should be?