The Mayor of London’s promise to “double the number of Special Officers to 10,000” looks to be in tatters after the Met’s latest figures showed that there are now only 3,253 Specials in the capital, 43% fewer than in May 2012 when he made the pledge. In Barnet and Camden the number fell 41% from 424 in May 2012 to […]
Read morePlease click here to see the letter I sent to Lord Kerslake regarding the gas supply situation on Strawberry Vale in East Finchley.
Read moreDear David, Further to your letter to the Chair of the Regeneration Committee and your appearance before the Assembly’s Plenary earlier this week, I write to request answers to the questions I raised and other consequential issues . I would be grateful if you could provide me, at your earliest convenience, answers to the following: Why and how […]
Read more10/3/16 Ed Williams Clerk to the Authority, LFEPA Dear Mr Williams, Please take this letter as my resignation as chair of LFEPA Resources Committee with immediate effect. Working within the Mayor’s financial envelope, I spent a lot of time and effort with Fire Brigade officers over many months developing a budget for the Fire Brigade that both balanced the books […]
Read moreDismore slams Lib Dem and Green ‘useless incompetence’ ——– Labour London Assembly and Fire Authority Member Andrew Dismore has slammed the Lib Dem and Green Fire Authority members for failing to turn up at the critical meeting called to decide whether to accept or defy the Mayor’s direction to cut 13 fire engines from the London Fire Brigade. Due to […]
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