Hazel Blears: The Restructuring Finance Working Group provides continuing advice to inform the development of government policy. It is chaired by the Head of the Police Finance and Information Technology Unit, Home Office. Members are drawn from the Home Office, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, HM Treasury, Welsh Assembly Government, the Local Government Association, the Association of Chief Police...
Clive Efford: .... In a sense, we have already had a pilot, which took place in London. It seems to me that the introduction of the Mayor in London, with responsibility for the governance of policing, was a good policy, and it was one that, I remind Labour Members, they proposed when in government”.––[Official Report, Police Reform and Social Responsibility Public Bill Committee, 25 January 2011; c....
Ann Winterton: ...charging scheme which has effect wholly within an integrated transport area may only be made if the proceeds of such a scheme, if any, are to be reinvested in the achievement of local transport policies of— (a) the charging authorities, and (b) the Integrated Transport Authority for the integrated transport area.’. No. 295, in clause 100, page 80, line 34, at end insert—...
Derek Conway: ..., could not support the Government over the paving Bill. I thought that it was wrong to bring it in and that it was brought in at the wrong time. Before I came to the House, when I led 44 Tory metropolitan county councillors in the north of England in 1981, I warned the policy and resources committee of Tyne and Wear county council that it was facing a short future. That was not just...
Mr James Wellbeloved: Is the center hon. Gentleman aware that the wastage figures are partly helped by the policy of using interchangeability in the Metropolitan Police rather than the police disciplinary code when officers have apparently committed some minor error? Will the center hon. Gentleman hold an investigation to ensure that when there is some doubt about the conduct of an officer in the Metropolitan...
Mr Bob Cryer: When the Minister meets those representatives, why does he not take notice of what they say? Does he understand that all the metropolitan county council representatives are totally opposed to the imposition of the transport guidelines in the Transport Bill, wish to see local authority democracy retained and thus have the right to determine their own public passenger fare levels? Does he not...
Nick Raynsford: Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will check the records and accept that what he is alleging is incorrect. That set of policy proposals came from the Association of Metropolitan Authorities and was never endorsed as Labour party policy. In fact, the proposals were rejected by the Labour party. The right hon. Gentleman's attempt to present them as Labour party policy is incorrect and misleading...
Caroline Russell: What is your response as Police and Crime Commissioner for London about the Good Law Project’s view that the policy of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) not to retrospectively investigate breaches is likely to be unlawful, a failure to publish the policy is likely to be unlawful, and a decision not to investigate based on an absence of evidence is also arguably unlawful? What...
Mr Patrick Jenkin: My right hon. Friencls and I have discussed Mr. Greengross's proposals. We have had to make it clear that the Government's policy does not envisage the kind of arrangements that Mr. Greengross is putting forward. The document, which I hope to publish before the House rises, will consist essentially of summary description of the destination of the various functions of the GLC and the...
Hazel Blears: Operation Minstead is a large scale investigation by the Metropolitan police into a series of rapes and attempted rapes on elderly women in south London. The first offence was in 1992. A further 97 offences are being investigated, the most recent of which was in February 2005. The elderly traumatised victims have been able to provide some information to the police about the offender. The...
Robert Wareing: My hon. Friend referred to the favourable and unfavourable responses to the Government's proposals to abolish the metropolitan councils and the GLC. He may have overlooked the fact that yesterday I received a written reply from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State. I asked how many responses the Government had received on the Bill. The answer was 80. I asked how many were favourable,...
Tom Brake: The planning policies of Sutton borough and the Mayor of London prioritise development on brownfield sites over greenfield sites and metropolitan open land. Is the Minister as surprised as I am that in a debate on Wednesday, an Education Minister described a site on metropolitan open land as the “preferred” site for a new secondary school, despite a brownfield site having been identified...
Mr Reginald Sorensen: asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs to what extent the building of many-storied domestic flat dwellings in extra-Metropolitan boroughs has modified the previous policy of reducing the population of certain of those boroughs; approximately how many persons have been rehoused during the last ten years in flat-dwellings of more than two floors within...
Mr Roy Hattersley: ...the policing of London. We welcome what he has provided and thank him for providing it, not least because this afternoon we shall get as near as we ever get under the present law to influencing the policy of the Metropolitan police. Even although the House will remain at some distance from the position of power on which the myth of the Home Secretary as police authority depends, it is...
Mr Albert Booth: My hon. Friend has raised an important issue. In the metropolitan areas, long-term investment of the type to which he referred involves anticipation of levels of ridership commensurate with the overall fares policy and the policy of integrating the various modes of transport. That will be wrecked. The Bill will mean an end the low fares policies that have been developed in recent years. The...
Elliot Morley: ...are shown as received from EA. Also listed are a number of statements received by the Environment Agency but not yet copied to Defra. The Agency is due to provide a further update on the receipt of policy statements in spring 2003 and I will publish the report once it has been received. Local authority Defra received Adur District Council 14 February 2002 Allerdale Borough...
Mr George Hicks: 26. asked the Minister of Health seeing that on 16th June he communicated with the Metropolitan mayors on the question of the collection and disposal of refuse, and that on 13th June Lord Jessel, President of the London Municipal Society, explained the Minister's proposals to a meeting of Municipal Reform party leaders, in addition to certain questions affecting the proposed transfer of...
Mr Bill Michie: ...Friend the Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) said about accountability and consultation. Many of us had misgivings about the local government reorganisation of the early 1970s by which the metropolitan counties were established. I have been a metropolitan county councillor since then and a district councillor, so I have no axe to grind. The metropolitan counties realised that they...
Kenneth Clarke: We have not cut the grant to the South Yorkshire county council. It is being maintained at the level that it would expect as a metropolitan county following an ordinary policy. It was the previous Labour Administration who cut out the South Yorkshire transport supplementary grant, because they also thought that the policies of that county were lunatic.
Mr Michael Heseltine: Few authorities pursue policies more likely to create unemployment than the metropolitan district of Sheffield, which, by its rating and expenditure policies, increasingly absorbed private sector resources that could otherwise go into profitable investment and job creation.
