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• Reference: 2013/5205
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

In November there were roadworks outside Knightsbridge fire station (earmarked for closure), resulting in delayed attendance times. LFB considered these potential delays to be serious enough to merit sending out a notice confirming that, as a safety measure, an additional pumping appliance from another station would be ordered on to all 'life risk' calls on Knightsbridge's ground. How do you square this with your plan to close the fire station entirely?

• Reference: 2013/5206
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

Do you agree with the Prime Minister's comments of 18th November, and reported in the Daily Mail on 19th November under the headline " Cameron swore he'd treasure the Green Belt. What a hollow promise" about the Prime Minister's view that there needs to be housing development in the green belt?

• Reference: 2013/5207
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

In light of your allegedpolicy to protect playing fields, will you make representations to Barnet Council to desist from the sale of Pavilion Way Fields, formerly the London Transport football field and transferred to Barnet under a covenant to protect the land from development and to keep it for sports use?

• Reference: 2013/5208
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

Further to your oral answer at MQT and your written answer to Question No: 2013/4144, As Sir Edward has now considered the application will you now refuse the proposal to turn this valuable green belt land into a golf course if Barnet Council give it planning permission?

• Reference: 2013/5218
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

Further to your answer to Question No: 2013/4150: "What meetings have you had with the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to discuss the issue of homophobic hate crime in the last six months and when do you next intend to meet with the Commissioner to discuss the issue?" Your answer being: "I meet the Commissioner on a regular basis, where crime statistics and MPS performance are discussed in the round. Performance, including hate crime, is also a standing agenda item at the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime's formal monthly bi-lateral meetings with the Commissioner". When did you last have a detailed...

• Reference: 2013/5219
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

Further to your answer to Question No: 2013/4155 "Research has shown that domestic abuse within same-sex relationships goes unreported by four out of five of those who experience it and that half of those that report it to the police were not happy with how they responded. What do you intend to do with the Metropolitan Police to improve reporting and their response to same-sex domestic abuse?" Your answer being: "MOPAC is committed to increasing confidence to report domestic violence in any relationship or setting and developing more and better ways to do so. Confidence to report is reinforced by...

• Reference: 2013/5220
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

Further to your answer to Question No: 2013/4157: "A constituent recently needed to report a lost mobile phone. Until recently, she could have walked 5 minutes to Fortis Green Police front desk and the process would have taken 5 minutes. Now, just for this minor thing, she had to ring 3 times to Hornsey front desk, over 2 days. A very polite, apologetic policeman said there was only him at the desk. He was always busy with other members of the public, and twice said he would ring back, but was kept too busy to do so. The 3rd time...

• Reference: 2013/5221
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

Further to your answer to Question No: 2013/4158 "A constituent recently met a Hong Kong Chinese tourist who had just arrived from the airport on her first day ever in Britain on 5 October, when she was conned out of a lot of money on the street, by an elaborate con involving someone posing as a plain-clothes policeman, complete with fake id card. She was upset by this, but even more so by the response she got when she immediately reported the crime to Paddington police station: a) They told her that because they were so busy she would have...

• Reference: 2013/5222
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

Further to your answer Question No: 2013/4165 and to Question No: 2013/3681: "When will you answer substantively Question No: 3066 / 2013 and 2504 / 2013, As the Royal Free Hospital has been discounted as a possible police "contact point" as officers staffing the contact point might be called away to A and E incidents, what are you now doing to provide a contact point for this area?" Is the delay because the best you have come up with is a stall in Starbucks? And are you aware the reports in the local press of the disquiet of local police...

• Reference: 2013/5232
• Question by: Andrew Dismore
• Meeting date: 18 December 2013

We have suffered from several raves recently, including some affecting West Hendon and also near Stirling Corner. The police seem unwilling and incapable of dealing with these disturbances due to a shortage of officers. Why? Is this not another consequence of your cuts?