The consultation on the operational change options for next year’s Fire Brigade budget has now begun. Have your say! One option, that preferred by the Fire Authority itself and which I prepared as the Chair of the Resources Committee balances the books by ‘alternate crewing’ some of our second response specialist appliances, allowing the retention of the 13 front line […]
Read moreAs a member of the Regeneration Committee at City Hall, I invited the committee to visit the Assembly constituency as part of our inquiry into the Mayor’s ‘areas of greater intensification’, with visits to Mill Hill and West Hampstead.
Read moreOn HS2 , I gave evidence to the Commons Select Committee considering the Bill: I am also working on a response to the consultation on Crossrail 2. I accepted a petition from those campaigning for step free access at West Hampstead, which I have passed on to the Mayor. At Mayor’s Question Time, I raised the issue of long […]
Read moreYou may have thought that after the Chancellor’s unexpected news in the Autumn statement, the Met. Police finances were out of the woods. The cuts risk was very serious. However problems remain. They still face £400 million in cuts on top of the £600 million so far. I have prepared a briefing on this. letter for publication: police cuts still […]
Read moreThe Chancellor’s unexpected, but welcome, statement that the police grant would be protected is a tribute to all those who have campaigned against his original intention to cut the Met.’s budget by between 25% and 40%. It means that we will not see the huge reduction in the numbers of police officers the Metropolitan Police Commissioner was warning would follow, […]
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