PRESS RELEASE: IMMEDIATE: 25/8/11 Labour’s London Assembly Transport spokesperson, Val Shawcross AM, has demanded an explanation from Conservative Mayor Boris Johnson after TfL announced weekend tube closures on the Jubilee Line will continue well into the autumn. Boris Johnson has made and broken a series of promises to end the weekend closures on the Jubilee Line, saying they would be […]
Read morePRESS 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 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 […]
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 […]
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