London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden, Andrew Dismore AM, is calling upon local small businesses to bid for a share of the £100 million funding pot the Mayor of London recently launched. Mr Dismore said that this funding should provide “the helping hand” that local small businesses need to “face up to the challenges brought on by prolonged economic […]
Read moreLabour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore has welcomed news that the Mayor of London’s Office has been awarded a share of £3.9m by the Government’s Geospatial Commission as one of two national pilots to create a digital map of pipes and cables in London. Known as London’s Underground Asset Register (LUAR), the scheme will operate across […]
Read moreWriting about Brexit to a deadline a few days ahead is risky, but to quote Tancredi in Tomasi di Lampedusa’s wonderful book ‘the Leopard’, “For things to remain the same, everything must change“- and this could be applied to Brexit: Parliament and Government in reversed roles, MPs’ votes ignored, fruitless negotiations in Downing Street and Brussels, a stubborn Prime Minister, timetable extensions- […]
Read moreAt today’s Mayor’s Question Time, Andrew Dismore AM, Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden, questioned the Mayor Sadiq Khan over the impact of Brexit extension on EU Londoners and the NHS. Mr Dismore asked: ‘What do you consider the priorities now to be over Brexit, now that an extension has been granted until Oct 31st, especially for EU […]
Read moreIn response to the Trussell Trust’s publication of figures that reveal that 11,553 three day emergency food supplies were given out in Barnet and Camden between April 2018 and March 2019, an increase of 28% on the previous year, Andrew Dismore, London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden said: “It is scandalous that we are continuing to see a growing […]
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