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  • Custody Visitor Scheme - review must involve the volunteers

    • Reference: 2007/2214
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2007
    The Independent Custody Volunteer (ICV) scheme is vital to ensure the rights of detainees in police cells. However, a number of Borough Panels have either collapsed or ceased to effectively function due to discontent with changes imposed by the Metropolitan Police Authority in recent reforms, a vote of no confidence in the scheme by the overwhelming majority of Panel Chairs, and the failure of the MPA to consult ICVs on changes to the final draft of the new scheme handbook. Can the Mayor undertake to bring pressure to bear that the MPA review - now postponed until October - fully...

  • Single non emergency number needs to be broadened

    • Reference: 2007/2215
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 12 September 2007
    If the idea of a London Single Non Emergency Number (101) is being revived, would the Mayor support One London's suggestion be broadened to encompass services in the way that New York's 311 service does?

  • Political violence in London

    • Reference: 2007/1877
    • Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
    • Meeting date: 18 July 2007
    On the Today Programme on June 30 the Mayor stated: 'What we do know in this city is that Muslims are more likely to be law abiding than non Muslims, Muslims are less likely to support the use of violence to achieve political ends than non Muslims.' Is this assertion based on any research, and if so, please can the Mayor supply the details.

  • Terrorists in the UK

    • Reference: 2007/1878
    • Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
    • Meeting date: 18 July 2007
    At a recent press conference the Mayor described Islamic terrorists in the UK as 'a small group of no more than 300'. Is this assertion based on any research, and if so, please can the Mayor supply the details.

  • Carbon offsetting

    • Reference: 2007/1883
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 18 July 2007
    How much does the GLA pay per tonne to offset its carbon emissions and to whom does it pay this money?

  • Carribean Showcase

    • Reference: 2007/1879
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 18 July 2007
    Are you planning on staging the Caribbean Showcase festival this year?

  • Kensington High Street

    • Reference: 2007/1880
    • Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
    • Meeting date: 18 July 2007
    What is your reaction to the successful `de-cluttering' of Kensington High Street and the subsequent dramatic fall in accidents on the road?

  • New York Congestion Charge

    • Reference: 2007/1881
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 18 July 2007
    In rejecting Mayor Bloomberg's plans to introduce a congestion charge to New York, one Democratic Assembly Member said the plan was 'a declaration of class war on the middle clas'. What is your reaction to that rejection?

  • Water desalination plant inquiry

    • Reference: 2007/1882
    • Question by: Peter Hulme Cross
    • Meeting date: 18 July 2007
    How much was spent by the GLA (including officer time) on the abortive attempt to stop Thames Water's desalination plant?

  • Use of overseas armed police at Olympics

    • Reference: 2007/1509
    • Question by: Damian Hockney
    • Meeting date: 20 June 2007
    Are you concerned about Sir Ian Blair's comments that armed foreign police might have to be used at the 2012 Olympics, and would you join us in asking that all other possibilities are explored before this course of action is taken? And also that a specific guarantee is given that no operational police officers from outside the UK are allowed to work here under the Europol immunities rules?