This week I attended a meetign with TfL and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan with other Assembly members and local residents who had suffered tube noise that was not being satisfactorily resolved by TfL. I thought it would be helpful to note the agreed action points by TfL: Actions for TfL TfL to prepare action plan to share […]
Read more13 bus Issues raised: Remains at a poor level of service, admitted to in written answers. We were promised a review in September of the service, what is the outcome? How bad does the service have to be before it is cancelled and re-tendered? Too many buses do not complete the whole route, starting or finishing early (Generally Finchley or […]
Read moreLabour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore denounced the budget announced yesterday by Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond as “a disaster for London” Key budget headlines: Government fails to meet deficit reduction targets yet again, and will only deliver a surplus budget in 2025, 10 years after they promised to. Growth forecasts have been downgraded and […]
Read moreSadiq Khan, Mayor of London – Autumn Budget 2017 These are the policies I included in my submission to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ahead of the Budget on 22 November. I am calling on him to include in his Budget settlement policies that will: ensure the Met and London Fire Brigade are properly funded; progress Crossrail 2; provide me […]
Read moreDear all, An update on policing and crime from City Hall: You may have heard about the HMIC inspection report on the Met: : http://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/publications/peel-police-efficiency-2017-metropolitan/. We will be following up on this in detail at a future meeting of the police committee. Some late MQ answers which are rather extraordinary: I followed this up at the Police Committee meeting yesterday, […]
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