Dial a Ride Question No: 2594 / 2012 Andrew Dismore Why has Dial a Ride invested in an expensive computer booking system which cannot be overridden by common sense so that 2 or 3 Dial a Ride vehicles, each capable of taking 6 or 8 passengers, arrive at the same time to pick up one client individually each, when two […]
Read moreWorking with the GMB trades union, Labour‘s London Assembly candidate Andrew Dismore has used the Freedom of Information Act to find out the true figures for Barnet’s pension fund, which has revealed that the highest pension payment is £75,000 pa and the lowest only £12.72. Moreover, there is no need either to cut benefits or increase contributions: the Council is […]
Read moreDear Editor Last week’s community column by David Hogarth reminds us of the importance of the quality of care homes, and especially the “human side”. In 2007, when I chaired Parliament’s Select Committee on Human Rights, we published a detailed report on these issues: a clear example of how important human rights are. The Human Rights Act empowers users of […]
Read moreCan any pensioner believe what the Conservatives and Lib Dems say, now they’ve cut the Winter Fuel Payment? They promised to keep it during the election- but now they have cut the £50 supplement (£100 for older pensioners), leaving every pensioner worse off next winter. With so many pensioners in Barnet and Camden- and Barnet has the highest proportion of […]
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