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• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 20 July 2011

Mr Coleman and Mr Fihosy, you have both touched on a number of programmes that will be happening next year. Clearly there is the Olympics itself on a number of sites in and around London. There is your own programme of welcoming people and programmes that you know of at your Live sites. There are events that local authorities are putting on. There are events which local authorities are facilitating and by that I think of Jamaica celebrating 50 years of independence, Trinidad and Tobago also wanting to celebrate 50 years of independence, Brazil wishing to celebrate the fact of...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 February 2007

Can I ask Mr Coleman to actually clarify what he said about the swimming pool for Hillingdon? And I am very pleased that both parts of my constituency have been mentioned already today.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

There are pressures which you face immediately financially with a poorer and poorer settlement, and indeed the issues which are over the horizon - clearly the Olympic Games will be a major issue for the Metropolitan Police Service itself - current pressure on terrorism, and indeed the growing focus on clear up rates - how many crimes are resolved and result in a punishment - that continues to grind. We had the Home Secretary yesterday talking about the broad failure of the probation service and we know the impact that has on recidivism within the service. Are you resilient enough...

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

The actual quote was `even a whelk stall has an accountant', and you did not.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

Is the command structure of policing in London robust enough to meet the challenges of the next five years?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

There is both revenue and capital. Are you capitalised enough to meet the current demand?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

I would actually like the Commissioner to give his views on the fitness for purpose both of the financial and management structures. The Metropolitan Police within two years will be 180 years old. In many ways it has not changed. Certainly its mission from 1829, `Detection and prevention of crime with the promotion of public tranquillity', has not changed. Should that be changing? How far of you gone with Safer Neighbourhoods? What about accountability of local Borough Commanders or answerability to the local people? How far are you taking localised citizen focus? Are we fit for purpose there?

• Reference: 2006/0366-1
• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 November 2006

The total budget for equalities issues was reported to the MPA as £196 million at the Joint PPRC/Finance Committee meeting on 21st September 2006. Does this seem a little excessive to you and can you provide a breakdown of how this money will be spent?

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 08 September 2005

This sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare to me. How are people who are endeavouring to run a business, make a small profit, and pay their mortgage going to be expected to wade through all these committee meetings, board meetings, sustainable-development-checking processes? Mayor, you will have to ask them to put off the Olympics until 2016 at this rate.

• Question by: Richard Barnes
• Meeting date: 15 June 2005

I am grateful for the Chairman's intervention and indeed your last comment. I am conscious of the new strapline for the MPS, which is `Together'. I am conscious that Len (Duvall) said that it is an issue for the whole of London, all the communities across London, and yet, I still, within my constituency, get echoes of the statement that Hazel Blears (Minister of State for Policing, Security and Community Safety) made, that our Muslim community must be prepared, and to accept, to be disproportionately stopped and searched because of the terrorist threat; a statement which was echoed by yourself...