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• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 24 October 2012

Roger Evans (AM): I too spent a pleasant lunch some years ago being lobbied on this matter by Dave Wetzel [President of the Labour Land Campaign]. Professor Tony Travers (Chair, London Finance Commission): It is always fun. Roger Evans (AM): Yes, and he made the point that Jenny [Jones] does that it would encourage better use of land in London. Does that not mean that if you are using a piece of land for residential purposes it will encourage you to put a block of flats on it, the higher the better, rather than just ordinary houses?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Obviously it appears that the one-stop shop approach is working. On 11 September last year the Government announced the launch of a 24-hour helpline with support from Comic Relief, for people to report domestic violence. Have the police or the Police Authority been involved with that initiative?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

Roger Evans (AM): Do you think it is a good thing in principle?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 10 December 2003

I think Londoners will be pleased to hear the reassurance from the Commissioner that speed cameras are there for public safety rather than to raise revenue. One of the more positive initiatives has been to paint speed cameras yellow so that they act as an aid to safety rather than as a money raiser. Will you undertake to do what you can to ensure that the Mayor's new mobile speed cameras are also painted yellow and highlighted so that they contribute to safety improvements in London and are not just seen as a way of raising money? ... mobile speed...