PRESS RELEASE: IMMEDIATE: 25/8/11 Questions need answering over parking in Barnet. Andrew Dismore, Labour London Assembly candidate for Barnet and Camden submitted a Freedom of Information request to Barnet Council on 20th July, for details behind the highly unpopular changes to parking charges and rules. By law, Barnet Council should respond within 20 working days, yet they have failed to […]
Read moreWith my campaign team over the last few months, I have been collecting signatures on my petition against the cuts in police numbers. Little did we then expect what was going to happen with riots on our streets! The recent appalling events have shown just how important it is to maintain police numbers both in London and in the rest […]
Read morePRESS RELEASE: IMMEDIATE: 8th AUG 2011 Dismore launches Metpro inquiry e-campaign Andrew Dismore. Labour candidate for the London Assembly for Barnet and Camden, has today launched a new online campaign to fight for an inquiry into Barnet council’s contracting procedures, with particular reference to MetPro. The campaign can be accessed at http://www.campaignengineroom.org.uk/tory-barnet-easy-council-procurement-disasters and is directed at Secretary of State Eric […]
Read moreDear editor, Your front page article on Barnet’s inability to protect properly confidential material is in sharp contrast with their inability to respond to freedom of information requests properly on time or at all. Indeed, I have just presented a complaint to the Information Commissioner about the failure of the Conservative Council to respond to a request I sent them […]
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