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• Reference: 2001/0266-1
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Is the Chair confident that the police will be able to achieve their priorities and objectives for the current year? .

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Chair, I am not sure if this one of the reversals that I mentioned earlier on but I am not a member of the MPA so I will go with this question. Can you give us an assurance that the MPA will not sacrifice long-term key policy developments under short-term decisions taken by the MPS in their budget making, as in civilianisation of the police force which is quite key in terms of freeing up resources, and any others that may come into being or have already been taken?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Could you tell me whether the MPA supports the MPS in reversing some of the thrust of its policy decisions that we took last year relating to the budget?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

And does the MPA support that then?

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Presumably then the MPA evaluated the consequences of the slippages around these decisions then?

• Reference: 2001/0018-1
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

Would the Chair please give me an update on the budget situation within the Metropolitan Police Authority? .

• Reference: 2001/0019-1
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

Would the Chair give the members of the Assembly a progress report on the current consultation process of Recommendation 61 of The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry and give details of the sections of the community currently consulted? .

• Reference: 2001/0020-1
• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

What has been the impact of government recruitment initiatives on the a) number of inquiries to join the MPS, b) number of applications received and c) numbers of new recruits to the service? .

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

I think last year, was it last year, when Sir John Stevens came before the Budget Committee, by his own admission he indicated that he had inherited, I think he used the word a "mess". When do you expect those inherited issues to have been tidied up so that you can concentrate on the real financial issues that you have just outlined earlier on.

• Question by: Len Duvall OBE
• Meeting date: 01 January 2001

When do you think we'll be in a position to see with some confidence a longer-term budget strategy for the MPS?