A report by audit firm Grant Thornton has laid bare the stark failings of Barnet Council’s One Barnet contract. The report was commissioned after a Capita employee was found to have committed over £2 million worth of fraud over two years, by submitting fictitious Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPO) payment requests on regeneration estates, which were paid into the perpetrator’s bank […]
Read moreIn response to the Prime Minister’s speech today on the progress of the Government’s Brexit negotiations with the European Union, Labour’s London Assembly Economy Spokesperson, Andrew Dismore AM, said: “This was a convoluted and desperate speech from the Prime Minister providing no assurances to Londoners and businesses in the capital that a deal will be reached. It marks the culmination […]
Read moreLabour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore has written to Heidi Alexander, Deputy Mayor of London for Transport to ask for a rethink of plans to divert the 143 and 326 buses away from Gravel Hill in Finchley Central. TfL are extending the 125 bus route, which currently terminates outside St Mary’s Church, to Colindale, in order […]
Read moreLabour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore has written to the leader of Barnet Council Cllr Richard Cornelius to ask why Barnet Council are not on the list of accredited London Living Wage employers. In a written question to Sadiq Khan, Mr Dismore asked the Mayor of London whether he could “name the London boroughs which are […]
Read moreLabour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore has submitted an objection to Barnet Council on the proposed demolition of the Midland Hotel public house in Hendon. Developers are aiming to replace the popular local pub with 59 flats, none of which are affordable. Mr Dismore said: ‘The wilful and wholesale destruction of valued community assets is a […]
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