Introduction This month has seen worrying developments in relation to hate crime (see the policing section below), which was made all the more relevant by this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day. I attended events at City Hall, the Camden and Barnet Councils’ organised events, school events at Edgware Reform and Finchley Reform synagogues and as a founder of HMD when I […]
Read moreLabour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore has written to the Council’s Chief Executive, John Hooton, to raise the shambles of Barnet Council’s planning department’s failed presentation at last week’s Planning Appeal over the cemetery land in Mill Hill. Mr Dismore said: ‘The Council made a real horlicks of this very sensitive and controversial planning appeal to […]
Read moreLabour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore has condemned President Trump’s controversial ban on Muslim country nationals entering the USA. The ban affects those born in Libya, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan and Syria, which includes almost 13,000 Barnet residents and 6,000 Camden residents- and a total of 150,000 London-wide. Mr Dismore said: “President Trump’s policy […]
Read moreEU and non-EU migration into London and the UK Long-term international migration to the UK has increased in recent years. Total long-term net migration (i.e. inflows minus outflows[1]) into the UK has risen from 268,000 in the year ending June 2010 to 385,000 in the year ending June 2016 (see chart 1).[2] This is considerably higher than the government’s net […]
Read moreQuestion 472 From Andrew Dismore AM (Labour Group) Fleet replacement programme At originally anticipated prices and current exchange rates, what is the best estimate of the additional cost to the fleet replacement programme, as a result of the drop in the value of Stirling against the Euro consequent on the Brexit referendum? Commissioner’s reply: At this point it […]
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