Mr Ivor Stanbrook: ...unemployment have been mentioned. One problem is not peculiar to London, but London has a particular interest in it. I refer to the subject of law and order. Nothing could be more important. The Metropolitan Police is the finest police force of any large capital city in the world. I sometimes wonder whether we deserve such excellent police, bearing in mind the numerous criticisms of...
Andrew Turner: I am not asking for the whole homelessness policy to be based on the experiences of the Isle of Wight. I am merely asking that the Government take account of those experiences to the same extent as they have taken account of the experiences of the constituency of the hon. Member for Hampstead and Highgate (Glenda Jackson), for example. As my hon. Friend the Member for Tewkesbury (Mr....
Sadiq Khan: The NPPF’s references to ‘previously developed land’ relate specifically to development on Green Belt (and, by definition, Metropolitan Open Land which is afforded the same protection as Green Belt). Shoreditch Park is locally designated open space and is not designated as Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land. My draft London Plan also offers protection to local open space, and seeks to...
Vincent Cable: ...recent improvements in housing allowances, many police officers have to commute long distances because of the shortage of affordable housing? Does he share my concern about the fact that the Metropolitan police in particular are continuing the policy introduced under the last Government of selling off police housing? Is he monitoring that process and giving guidance to the authority about...
Mr Roy Hattersley: ...wrong. It reminds me of the days when he used to tour the country predicting success for the Conservative party in by-elections. My purpose this morning is basically to congratulate the Metropolitan police on the year's work which is now under review, and to suggest some ways in which the Home Secretary and the Government might co-operate with them in producing an even better result in...
Mr Albert Booth: ...the White Paper, we have not only had to examine the Bill within the truncated timescale allowed by the guillotine but have had to conduct the debate on the White Paper and the consultation with metropolitan authorities and the GLC which would have been carried out before proceedings commenced on the Bill if the normal timescale had been observed in producing the White Paper and...
Mr Derek Fatchett: .... Friends to think about all the appointments that the Government have made to chair district health authorities and the membership of those authorities. They appoint people who will support their policies and do not seek a balance or representation to reflect different views. They will simply search for people who will nod through the Government's policy. The Secretary of State, who is...
Mr Richard Wainwright: On another occasion I should be delighted to lecture the hon. Gentleman on the fact that alliance incomes policy is decentralised to the greatest possible extent and would consist of local and regional tribunals which would make their own decisions in an arbitration fashion. If the hon. Gentleman is trying to tax us with a centralised incomes policy, he should look back to the Government of...
Lord Whitty: ...follows. Responses sent to the DETR regarding the consultation paper on reducing disruption from utilities' street works Local Government Local Government Association; Babergh District Council; Metropolitan Borough of Wirral; Eastleigh Borough Council; Wellington Town Council; City of Sunderland; North Lincolnshire Council; Hampshire County Council; Wandsworth Borough Council; Bexley...
John Denham: ...representations from the City of London police about its resources. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary meets regularly with the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Mayor of London at which a range of issues are discussed, including police numbers. There have been two representations about police numbers in the Essex...
Colonel Sir Joseph Nall: ...the matter on the Report stage; and this is the appropriate moment, before we, resume the Committee stage on the new Clauses. The new undertaking will include the old Underground group and the Metropolitan Railway Company, and the House ought to have some declaration as to the intentions of policy from the Minister in relation to the parcels service. The Metropolitan Railway conducts a...
David Cairns: ...Conservation Area, pays special attention to the desirability of preserving or enhancing its character or appearance. All development proposals are assessed against published regional planning policy, in particular Planning Policy Statement (PPS) 6 'Planning, Archaeology and the Built Heritage' and PPS 7 'Quality Residential Environments'. These regional policies are supplemented by...
David Wilshire: It is a great pity that the hon. Gentleman did not listen to what I said, because this booklet is basically a campaign to politicise the Metropolitan police. The second example of the misuse of money about which I am concerned is the use of money for biased recruitment advertisements. Haringey placed advertisements for 11 policy officers who were to report to Labour chairmen of committees....
Ed Vaizey: ...amendment because it affects an interpretation clause. As I said when I explained— perhaps more fully than the Under-Secretary—the reasons for the technical amendment, we need to ensure that metropolitan district councils are covered by the Bill. However, my hon. Friend's point is well made in the light of my constant attempts and those of the hon. Member for Bath to ensure that the...
Mr Nicholas Edwards: I appreciate the problems of the inner cities, but is it not a consequence of the Government's policy over last year and this that both Welsh local government, through the rate support grant, and regional policy have been impoverished? Is the Minister satisfied with the system of regression analysis? Can it be right that the industrial areas of South Wales and the rural areas of Wales, with...
Charles Clarke: The Government have put into place policies in the areas of crime reduction, antisocial behaviour, policing and active communities that are yielding considerable benefits for the constituency. Between March 1997 and March 2005 the number of police officers in the Metropolitan Police area increased by 4,396 from 26,677 to 31,073. The Government's introduction of community support officers...
Mr Chris Pond: On behalf of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the BFI good practice review of Rotherham Metropolitan borough council was published on 8 March and copies of the report are available in the Library. In 2003–04, Rotherham metropolitan borough council administered some £60 million in housing benefits, 15 per cent. of its gross revenue expenditure. The BFI...
Mr Sam Foster: We work in conjunction insofar as any application is concerned. Consideration is given and consultation undertaken, and no planning exercise is taken lightly. Planning policy statement 6, ‘Planning, Archaeology and the Built Heritage’ sets out my Department’s current planning policies for the control of development in conservation areas. There is a presumption in favour of retaining any...
Mr Neil Carmichael: ...1975–76 to the same extent, revenue support in the current year could be double that amount. What the Government have done, to reduce the impact on the rates of local authorities' revenue support policies during 1975–76 and to moderate the level of fare increases which would otherwise be necessary, is to make a special grant allocation of £90 million through Transport Supplementary...
Q241James Brokenshire: Can the Minister give an indication of any guidance that the Home Office has given to the police in relation to stops and searches as a policy issue? As he will be aware, there has been a policy shift, if I may describe it that way, by the Metropolitan police—certainly in relation to the way in which they use the power in section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Has...
