Siân Berry: ...when they enquired at a Network Rail station to British Transport Police (BTP) about a vulnerable older missing person they were helping family members to search for, who had been reported to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), they were told that the MPS: “doesn’t pass missing person incidents on to us.” Is it true that this is the policy that is followed by these police services...
Mr Herbert Williams: We are not handing finance over to the Secretary of State. The whole matter of policy remains with the Provincial Governments. There is no challenge on the question of policy at all, because it is made clear that this Board is to take orders from the Federal Government where necessary and from a Provincial Government where necessary, and it has to act on the orders given. If there should be...
Sadiq Khan: My London Plan has a clear objective that Metropolitan Open Land should be afforded the same protection as Green Belt and protected from inappropriate development. The National Planning Policy Framework does allow development on protected open space if very special circumstances can be demonstrated. The number of planning permissions involving construction that would lead to a loss of...
Damian Green: The information requested is as follows: (a) The Home Office has allocated the following total resource payments to the Metropolitan police: £ 2010-11 1,259,313,871 2011-12 1,375,321,319 2012-13 1,369,047,898 Notes: 1. Figures are only available on a financial year basis and do not include police funding provided by the Department for Communities and Local Government....
Mr John Cartwright: ...discussions today who was not on the Standing Committee of the Local Government, Planning and Land (No. 2) Bill. Therefore, I do not know why section 64 and schedule 11 of that Bill proposed to pay Metropolitan Police block grant to the rating authorities. It was not a good idea. It breaches the basic principle that block grant should be paid to the authorities providing the service. It...
Clive Efford: May we have a debate on cuts to the police? The Metropolitan police is making clerical staff redundant and filling those posts with warranted officers. That flies in the face of the Government’s policy of making police more visible to the public; I assume that the Met will adopt a policy of moving desks closer to windows to fulfil that requirement. May we have a debate on that, as it is...
Lord Bach: The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has informed me that the Metropolitan Police "Safe Driving" Policy, which aims to raise and maintain police driving standards and so to reduce collisions, includes a policy on vehicle pursuits. Together with all other Chief Officers in England and Wales, the Commissioner has accepted in principle the recommendations in the Association of Chief...
Mr Robert Adley: ...hon. Friend noticed that since the liberalisation of coach services his Department has been forced to put governors on coaches because of excessive speeds on motorways? Is he further aware that the Metropolitan police are extremely worried and aggravagated about the result that my right hon. Friend's coach policy has had on the routes that coaches use in London, and also on parking? In...
John Greenway: ...both serving police officers and the people of the capital, that is the height of complacency because all evidence is that the decline in numbers is set to worsen. First, the age profile of the Metropolitan police is increasing. In February 1999, the Minister of State, the hon. Member for Brent, South (Mr. Boateng), gave me some written answers, confirming that the average age of serving...
Mr Allan Roberts: The Opposition regret that the Government have not accepted the new clause. We regret the Government's policy of local government cuts and their enforcement. We regret their privatisation policies. If democratically elected councils do not want privatisation, it is enforced. Then the Government chose to abolish those councils that happen to be strong and Labour—the metropolitan county...
Mr Jimmy Boyce: Is my hon. Friend aware that on top of these particular job losses, which narrow the field of employment for people in the whole of the metropolitan borough of Rotherham, the figure that he mentioned of 2,000 in his own constituency is probably multiplied by more than 300 per cent. when the whole of the metropolitan borough is taken into account? Is he further aware that this narrowing of...
Sadiq Khan: ...Environment and Energy Shirley Rodrigues wrote to the East London Waterworks Park in support of the project. It supports my ambitions to increase access to green and natural spaces for Londoners. Policy G3 of my London Plan sets out that boroughs should work with partners to enhance the quality and range of uses of Metropolitan Open Land, and that proposals to enhance access to...
Mr Frederick Bellenger: asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the statutory provisions under which the Metropolitan Water Board are authorised to borrow money by way of bills are being impeded by the policy of the Bank of England in refusing to discount such bills for more than six months with a period of 90 days clearance between the maturity of such bills; and whether this policy has been...
Mr Bernard Weatherill: ...2A) and (2B) below, and'. (b), in subsection (1)(a), after first 'London', insert 'the Greater London Regional Economic and Social Council'. (c), in subsection (1)(b), after 'county', insert 'each metropolitan county regional social and economic council'. (d), at end of subsection (1)(b), insert— '(1A) (a) There shall be established for Greater London and for each metropolitan county a...
Sadiq Khan: The Department for Transport's policy in respect of its emergency capital highway maintenance funding for the 2007 floods, was to settle claims on an interim and final estimated cost basis. This allowed authorities to expedite their planned programme of repairs. The funding transferred is set out as follows. £ million Funding allocations made Authority March 2008 July 2008...
Mr Alf Morris: I cannot say whether he will be working as a building trade unionist or with the "lump". It is, however, most disquieting that trained policemen should leave the Metropolitan force to take jobs that many would say are of less social importance for more pay. It costs a great deal of money to train a police officer. If we are to to avoid wasting public money, we must avoid the increasing...
Mr John Heddle: ...that has been debated elsewhere and will no doubt be debated in Committee. Many of my constituents in Mid-Staffordshire work, and have commercial and industrial interests, in the West Midlands metropolitan county area. They believe, with me, that the abolition of that authority will mean lower rates, better value for their money as ratepayers and taxpayers, no more expensive...
Mr John Wheeler: As I was saying, the policing of London is not entirely a matter for the Metropolitan police. This House recognises the valuable work done by the other forces. I was referring to the City of London police force, under the able direction of its own commissioner, Mr. Owen Kelly. We also have the British Transport Police and the Royal Parks constabulary, which renders such valuable service in my...
Mr Albert Booth: ...transport authorities have to approve under the provisions of clause 4. The Bill was introduced in an atmosphere of considerable concern about the legal position of local authorities in the metropolitan areas and the GLC in respect of their payments under transport policy. The situation had developed largely from a decision in the other place which held, in Bromley v the GLC, that the GLC...
Diana R. Johnson: ...held on 24 November 2010; (2) she plans to report to the House on the policing of demonstrations in central London and elsewhere on 24 November 2010; (3) she has had discussions with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on (a) the containment practices deployed to maintain public order at demonstrations and (b) the MPS's assessment of containment practices on 24 November 2010; (4) ...
